Quotes about self
self survival together
They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing. Ann Brashares
self years wings
What's curious about the left's current obsession with Timothy McVeigh is that it proves that - despite a frantic search for 15 years - liberals have come across no better evidence of burgeoning "right-wing extremist" violence than a drug-taking, self-described "agnostic" who was thrown out of the Michigan Militia and who proclaimed, "Science is my religion." That sounds more like Bill Maher than Rush Limbaugh. Ann Coulter
self-esteem insecure essence
Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have been wounded somehow. What about the little guy our poor, insecure bully is beating the living daylights out of? How's his self-esteem coming along? That is the essence of liberals: They viciously attack everyone else, while wailing that they are the victims.
self differences america
Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
self rights brave
Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life. Andrea Dworkin
self expression feminist
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.
self-esteem helping esteem
The gods help them who help themselves. Aesop
self-esteem psychological-health care
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself. Abraham Maslow
self modern psychological
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
self-esteem healthy fame
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
self people feelings
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.
self-esteem acceptance self-confidence
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.
self perfection simplicity
A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.
self grace unbroken
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. Abraham Lincoln
self-esteem thinking fit
Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.
self outsiders congress
Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders. Aleksandar Hemon
self hatred form
We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
self talking pity
Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
self perfection path
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection! Aleister Crowley
self care grooming
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self. Albert Einstein
self worry understanding
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
self hunted self-respect
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. Alfred Whitney Griswold
self oneness diversity
The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities. Alfred North Whitehead
self finals intellect
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
self-esteem quality description
Charm is that extra quality that defies description. Alfred Lunt
self-esteem needs nourishment
There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem
self feet knowing
Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing. Alfred Kazin
self-esteem play training
Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults. Alfred Korzybski
self-esteem men riches
Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
self-esteem teaching giving
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.
self-esteem identity facts
Identity is invariably false to facts.
self people use
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people. Aldrich Ames
self cherish wilderness
All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish. Aldo Leopold