Quotes about self
self people boredom
Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life. Wayne Dyer
self soul care
I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully. Tracee Ellis Ross
self islands rocks
An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything functions according to rituals that are as hard as rock from repetition, and at the same time they amble through their days as whimsically and casually as if the world ended at the horizon. Tove Jansson
self goal achievement
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. Vash Young
self law ideas
Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework of the story. It has some scientific content, however speculative. If it breaks a law of physics, it knows it's doing so and follows up the consequences. If it invents a society of aliens, it does so with some respect for and knowledge of the social sciences and what you might call social probabilities. And some of it is literarily self-aware enough to treat its metaphors as metaphors. Ursula K. Le Guin
self self-destruction destruction
Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
self massage parlor
I went to a massage parlor, it was self service. Rodney Dangerfield
self jerk neighbor
They say love thy neighbor as thy self , what am I supposed to do jerk him off too?
self world immediacy
The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die Roberto Unger
self doubt important
The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core he is remorseless. Robertson Davies
self poetry understanding
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. Robert Penn Warren
self trying defects
It is a human defect--to try to know one's self by the self of another.
self inner-peace mind
Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally. Robert M. Pirsig
self hands people
Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle. Walt Kelly
self style want
I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do. Vincent Cassel
self soul body
I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is, Walt Whitman
self body celebrate
I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!
self hands civilization
Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize. There are, then, these two preparations: one for life and the other for death. Therefore we value and are ashamed to value ourselves. Saul Bellow
self world
You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.
self talking shells
She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. Sarah Dessen
self brave world
Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.
self over-you world
Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.
self feelings together
I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.
self degrees
To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed. Rod Taylor
self cleaning revelations
There is no such thing as a self-cleaning oven.
self kind certain
I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed. Zach Galifianakis
self form self-education
Traveling is my form of self-education. Yvon Chouinard
self people trying
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
self self-centered truly-happy
You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist. Zig Ziglar
self risk losing
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. Zhuangzi
self self-sufficient sufficient
I like women who are self-sufficient. Ty Pennington
self dollars roles
The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector. William Greider
self mind statistics
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education. William Godwin