Quotes about self
self historical criticism
Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength. Rosa Luxemburg
self roots evil
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
self distortion irrational
Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational. Ron Perlman
self portraits caricatures
When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile. Rolf Harris
self people saws
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. Roger Zelazny
self practice legislation
Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work. Susan Rice
self imagine hard
It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured. Susan Orlean
self half deny
For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent. Susan Glaspell
self consciousness free-will
Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes. Susan Blackmore
self afterlife long
All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority for a long time to come, especially among experiencers, but for me the evidence and the arguments are overwhelming ... We are biological organisms, evolved in fascinating ways for no purpose at all and with no end in mind. We are simply here and this is how it is. I have no self and "I" own nothing. There is no one to die. There is just this moment, and now this, and now this.
self should presentation
Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting? Susan Cain
self performing
Every American was to become a performing self.
self phenomenon
Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon. Sugata Mitra
self feelings musician
I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. Sufjan Stevens
self smell comic
From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike. Storm Jameson
self people liberty
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric. Stevie Smith
self people negative
The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased. Sonja Lyubomirsky
self order perfect
So often we wait for the climate and conditions in life to be perfect before we feel safe enough to step forward, trust, and be our authentic selves. What we don't realize is that in order to create the ideal climate we are waiting for, we must be authentic first. Sonia Choquette
self framework transcendence
Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves. Steve House
self wicked excuse
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. Stephen Schwartz
self watches vices
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick? Stephen Fry
self expression people
I like people who are as unlike me as possible, which is not an expression of self disgust or self hatred, but it's just that you know you obviously particularly admire things that you recognize yourself as not having.
self people who-you-are
You are who you are when nobody's watching.
self perfection saint
Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills. St. Vincent
self indulge-in tools
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.
self realisation seekers
Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it. Sri Chinmoy
self goal transcendence
Our goal is self-transcendence
self inspire humanity
Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.
self giving cry
What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?
self speech flawless
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant. Sri Aurobindo
self mindfulness would-be
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a life that is would-be sentient, to be more than sentient, to be again divinely self-conscious, free, infinite, immortal.
self mind body
The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding.
self infinite highest
Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.