Quotes about self
selfish life-is
The only selfish life is a timid one. Jeanette Winterson
selfish grief tears
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?
selfish thinking sick
I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself. Jim Carrey
self-esteem mean self-confidence
A better you means a better universe.
self photographer
All knowledge is self-reflective. Jerry Uelsmann
self shells lovers
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. Jerzy Kosinski
self effort doe
We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones. Jerome Bruner
self agents needs
We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.
self employment examination
In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment. Jeremy Taylor
self rehearsal
it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself. Jennifer Stone
selfish kids people
I don't want to have kids and so I am not going to have kids. People who want kids are going to have kids. I'm doing what I want to do and people who want kids are doing what they want to do. What about this scenario makes me selfish? Jen Kirkman
self tonight bishops
Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight! Jeaniene Frost
self sides grudge
Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries.
selfish health goal
Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure. Jennifer Hudson
self long doe
Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing. Jeff Cooper
self facts amazon
Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing. Jeff Bezos
selfish men unjust
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. Jean-Paul Sartre
self perfect harmony
When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation. Georges Braque
self names upset
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality. Georges Bataille
self names america
Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization. George Will
self-esteem biology planets
Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.
self intellectual able
living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it. George Sand
selfish self-respect self
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
self-confidence self soldier
The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence. George S. Patton
self heartfelt wish
My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. George Saunders
selfish believe heart
Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause us to prioritize our own needs over the needs of others, even though what we really want, in our hearts, is to be less selfish, more aware of what's actually happening in the present moment, more open, and more loving.
self games common
Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule. Jean Piaget
self world contact
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
self law causes
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
self humanity overcoming
My humanity is a constant self-overcoming. Friedrich Nietzsche
self despair moral
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.
self lust want
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.
self ill-treatment profound
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.