Quotes about self
self numbness able
Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there. Heather O'Neill
self feelings peers
I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers. Heather Matarazzo
self trying method
Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me. Hayden Christensen
self lasts england
When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England. Hilaire Belloc
self denial essentials
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.
self abuse world
The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
selfish war forgiving
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. Henry Ward Beecher
self contemplation conceit
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
selfish men law
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
self imagination heaven
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
selfish government world
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
selfish exercise luxury
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.
self effort soul
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
self religion denial
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
self trying denial
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
self problem obvious
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. Henry Flynt
self ideas wife
The idea of submission is never meant to allow someone to overstep another's boundaries. Submission only has meaning in the context of boundaries, for boundaries promote self-control and freedom. If a wife is not free and in control of herself, she is not submitting anyway. She is a slave subject to a slave driver, and she is out of the will of God. Henry Cloud
self expression criticism
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself. Helen Vendler
self years suits-you
I just thought I‘d never look good in what everybody else wore. So there’s no point trying. You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t look like everybody else. Be you. That’s our gift and we’ve got to celebrate that, but it does take ages. I was wracked with self-doubt for years. I get spasms of it even now – I’m not indelibly self-confident. Helena Bonham Carter
self-esteem hands stranger
Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
self substance way
I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend. Helen Fielding
self way smooth
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth. Johann Kaspar Lavater
self want woe
Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
self action contemplation
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
self feelings different
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self? Haruki Murakami
self people church
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
self fame interest
I do not like to "interest" the public with myself. Gustave Flaubert
self destruction aggressive
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. Greg Bear
self elephants empathy
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. Graydon Carter
selfish years guy
Try not to be four years into a relationship when it suddenly dawns on you that the guy you're with is a big, selfish jerk. Greg Behrendt
self government culture
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. Gilbert K. Chesterton
selfish confused cities
The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
self expression design
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. John Malkovich