Quotes about self
self keys world
To have an open self is to provide a free channel for the infinite goodness of God. To have an open self is to keep yourself aware, alert and sensitive to the beauty and wonder of life. God's love will flow through you into the world when you are open. You enlarge the dimensions of your life when you keep yourself open to the highest and best. The key to God's infinite riches is within you; open yourself and you will receive. Wilferd Peterson
self hands trying
We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self. Wavy Gravy
self color class
In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow... Wassily Kandinsky
self names groups
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one. Walter Kirn
selfish stupid socialism
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. Walter Lippmann
self expression people
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.
self rely-on-yourself rely
It is better to rely on yourself than on your friends. William Feather
self way painful
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode. William Styron
self survival important
Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival. William Powell
self affection intellect
Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place. William Ralph Inge
self fool hindrance
The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool. William Least Heat-Moon
self individual form
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being. William Boyd
self anxiety
Anxiety is the fear of one's self. Wilhelm Stekel
selfish men citizens
Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues have something in them so inviting and genial, and the public virtues of the citizen something so grand and inspiring, that even he who is barely uncorrupted, is seldom able to resist their charm. Wilhelm von Humboldt
selfish grief men
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Walter Russell
selfish grief loss
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature. The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion - ECSTASY - the ecstasy of Love - the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.
self loses
Until one learns to lose one's self he cannot find himself.
selfish war government
War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose, which is to rule the people for the Government instead of for the purpose of serving the people. When will the people see that the very taxes they pay are building a power to be used against them?
self practice people
There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis. Rebecca Solnit
self feelings separation
However, when we shift our awareness or "frequency" from self-consciousness - where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside - to cosmic consciousness, which is in total harmony with the universe and where none of those feelings exist, then anything is possible. Rhonda Byrne
self centeredness pity
Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form. Rick Yancey
self relax wish
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax. Tristan Wilds
self-esteem years anorexia
When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem. Tracey Gold
self america people
The people in Miami are so different from anywhere else I've been in America. They're so down to earth, really friendly, and quite self-effacing, with a good sense of humor. I'm not saying other parts of America don't have a sense of humor, but Miami maybe has to have a really good sense of humor for lots of different reasons, and it works. It works for me. Tracey Emin
self labels want
The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand nobodies out there who are probably making better music. Self-releasing is the only way to go. Tony Visconti
selfish philosophy black
What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today. Steve Winwood
self serving self-serving
Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton Veronica Roth
selfish love-you sacrifice
About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.
selfish staples
A lot of music comes from a selfish place… Vince Staples
self fans not-afraid
I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor. Vince Vaughn
self space despair
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.
self
Say yes to your self. Say no to your anti-self. Robert G. Allen
self way should
Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal. Robert Green Ingersoll