Quotes about self
self glasses looks
Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own. Sargent Shriver
selfish thinking bored
Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to anything they want? Because they don't think they'll get caught? Sarah Mlynowski
selfish doe gabriel
Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates. Sarah MacLean
self
I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one. Sara Teasdale
self careers important
The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating. Sandra Bernhard
self poison half
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
selfish eye heart
...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
self heaven world
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world. Samuel Rutherford
self-esteem mean law
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason. Samuel Johnson
self incentives emulation
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.
self giving growth
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor
self doe watches
The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware when I'm speaking to an actor of how easily I could throw them off by saying something careless or not being clear or concise. So it does make you watch your words in a way that sometimes is unhelpful. Sarah Polley
self tools use
The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self. William Howard Taft
self people important
The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be. Warren Buffett
self want degrees
The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be
self expression generations
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish. Vivienne Westwood
self voice development
One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant. Vincent Van Gogh
self-improvement way needs
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Wayne Dyer
self tyrants people
As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.
self serenity rooms
Your higher self is always nudging you toward a resolution of the conflicts that you experience in your life, so that you will have room for serenity and harmony.
self decision doubt
Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.
self voice ego
The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.
selfish thinking people
You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.
self practice two
You practice forgiveness for two reasons: to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility with them and to free yourself from the self-defeating energy of resentment. Send love in some form to those you feel have wronged you and notice how much better you feel.
self-esteem believe successful
You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
self connections encounters
When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self. For you see, nothing is accomplished without others. When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and everyone.
self forgiving shame
Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.
self long
As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me. Walter de La Mare
self interest benevolence
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. Walter Bagehot
self order world
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them Walter Benjamin
self literature may
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand. Virginia Woolf
self sick want
I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.
self perception consciousness
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.