Quotes about self
self joy fulfillment
Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living. Sophia Loren
self discipline acting
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again. Toni Servillo
self want path
I don't want to point out her flaws, but if I see her going on a self-destructive path, isn't it up to me as her friend to stop her? Simone Elkeles
self stories consciousness
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. Simone de Beauvoir
self two would-be
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe.
self iron hatred
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not. Simone Weil
self leader care
The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest. Simon Sinek
self cost interest
The cost of leadership is self-interest.
self knowing generations
Now there's a whole generation of filmmakers who grew up making their own films with video cameras, and have dined entirely on a diet of popular culture. It's been reflected in a lot of their work. It's self-reflective, it's quite knowing, but it's very literate. Simon Pegg
self looks might
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. Simon Mainwaring
self law democracies-have
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
self inappropriate planets
If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of “appropriateness”-deserves to be confronted with as many “inappropriate” transgressions as possible. Simon Doonan
self dust storm
I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence—everything a little dust devil like me could want. Rick Riordan
self echoes ironic
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath. Renata Adler
self hatred manhattan
Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, hasbeen respected exactly to the degree that it went too far. Rem Koolhaas
self ego doe
One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total. Swami Vivekananda
self done worship
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.
self parent belief
Self-belief? My parents gave it to me. Tippi Hedren
self expression demand
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression . Thurgood Marshall
self doe absurd
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering. Thomas Woods
self complacency possession
So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect. Thorstein Veblen
self chance ends
concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security. Thucydides
self ego abiding
When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually. Robert Adams
self years feelings
All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you have been the source of everything to begin with. Everything you've been looking for has been within yourself you have been that. You then begin to surrender everything to yourself. You surrender all of your thoughts, all of your feelings, you surrender all of your desires, all of your wants to the Self. You pull it in all inwardly.
self secret mind
The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.
self perfect rejoice
You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self and you are That. Rejoice!
self roots evil
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. Robert A. Heinlein
self color wind
A pacifist male is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described "pacifists" are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.
self groups morality
The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
self enemy
All my enemies are self-appointed.
self years people
Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.
self safety democracy
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.
self soul lovers
There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved. Sri Chinmoy