Quotes about self
self gadgets backpacking
Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage. Aldo Leopold
self feelings outsiders
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity. Aldous Huxley
self world action
The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions
self example gazing
The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing at those bamboo legs, but actually being them---or rather being myself in them; or, to be still more accurate (for "I" was not involved in the case, nor in a certain sense were "they") being my Not-self in the Not-self which was the chair.
self civilization hygiene
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
self people luck
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.
self personality scales
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
self grace impossible
Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.
self affair moments
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
self people criticism
Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do... I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I. Albert Einstein
self-esteem satisfaction causes
There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause.
self-esteem men political
My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
self survival firsts
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature. Alexander Hamilton
self hands class
As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it never turned away. Side by side through all His manifestations of Himself, there were the two aspects: "He showed Himself froward " (if I may quote the word) to the self-righteous and the Pharisee; and He bent with more than a woman's tenderness of 'yearning love over the darkness and sinfulness, which in its great darkness dimly knew itself blind, and in its sinfulness stretched out a lame hand of faith, and groped after a Divine deliverer. Alexander MacLaren
self appreciate doe
Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry. Alexander McCall Smith
self giving advice
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one. Alexander Pope
self order judging
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.
self heaven silence
Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
self years hours
One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.
self heaven stealing
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
self self-love social
True self-love and social are the same.
self easy manners
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
self social god-and-nature
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
self-esteem past thinking
I just think that whole culture of hatred, and also feeling like it's your right to judge people when you don't know them, is really f***ed up. So I'm pleased I experienced that side of it, so I can learn to be a better person on the other side of it. I'm sure in the past I've been judgmental too ... Self esteem, that's something you've got to work on yourself. I know for me it's different day to day. Alexa Chung
self way missions
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. Alex Gibney
self needs imperfect
The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self. Debbie Ford
self possession atrophy
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. E. Stanley Jones
self waiting miracle
Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from within by turning in outgoing love to others, and miraculously your fears and doubts and self-centeredness will vanish. The miracle starts within, not from without.
self class identity
Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism , and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence. E. O. Wilson
self years use
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use. E. M. Forster
self smell people
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.
self-esteem mirrors looks
I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself. Drew Barrymore
self soul born
For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with. Donna Karan