Quotes about self
self poverty dare
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty. Anne Carson
self effort desire
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
self answers poverty
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
self lovely doubt
Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt. Anne Hathaway
self long comfort
Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again. Anne Frank
self doors use
but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!
self people stories
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. Ann Beattie
self views joy
I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world. Anita Roddick
self practice true-self
Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this. Dogen
self enlightenment delusion
That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.
self world way
What is the way of the Buddha? It is to study the self. What is the study of the self? It is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to enlightened by everything in the world.
self anorexia eating-disorder
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? Richard Bach
self self-education stills
I still say the only education worth anything is self-education. Robert Frost
self knows know-how
Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate. Rita Dove
self parent underestimate
Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption. Rita Mae Brown
self lines establishment
Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment. Richard Turner
self way action
…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves. Richard Matheson
self harsh condemnation
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
self quiet silent
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. Thornton Wilder
self people drunk
[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.
self hatred needs
There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.
self lord
Lord deliver me from myself. Thomas Browne
self best-self priesthood
This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith—a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self. Thomas S. Monson
self discipline want
Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.
self discipline battle
The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.
self diversity black
To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen. Thomas Sowell
self media people
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.
self people feelings
I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.
self desire want
Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is. . .Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.
self path resistance
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
self cost facts
Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.
self mirrors wife
I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and family, but the high spot of every day is when I first catch a glimpse of myself in the shaving mirror. Robert Morley
self color race
My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity. Robert Griffin III