Quotes about self
self forever choices
Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves. J. I. Packer
self denial speak
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
self self-absorbed
There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
self looks way
I enjoy doing scenes where I don't wear make-up and I can be raw. I like that. I feel like it's easier to act. When I have to have make-up on, I feel like I'm expected to look a certain way, and then it's harder to act because I'm more self-conscious. Ivana Milicevic
self people sides
People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self. Ivy Compton-Burnett
self yesterday missing
Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place again. But often I no longer recognize my manuscripts, as if I had forgotten what I had written, or as if overnight I were so changed that no longer recognized myself in the self of yesterday. Italo Calvino
self dancer creative
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves. Isadora Duncan
self-esteem halos conscience
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. Irving Layton
self saws horror
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
self madness misanthrope
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
self design canvas
He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.' Irving Stone
selfish people doe
I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish? Jack Kevorkian
self time time-and-time-management
Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
self creative tone
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable. Bela Bartok
self abandon one-thing
The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self. Bede Griffiths
self self-respect world
Learn to live in this world with self-respect B. R. Ambedkar
self society devil
Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. B. H. Liddell Hart
selfish damn-you ideas
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought! B. F. Skinner
self behavior given
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
self knowing done
I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect. Billy Corgan
self decision behavior
To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors. Bill Crawford
self-confidence keys knowing
The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and love versus fear becomes the energy of choice.
selfish caring care
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
self people empowerment
The summit, which is set up to educate people about managing their money and protecting their income, leads to empowerment of self, for which this summit needs to be applauded. Bill Cosby
self impossible difficult
Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible. Bhumibol Adulyadej
self people work-ethic
There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self. Big Sean
selfish people feelings
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. C. S. Lewis
self surrender easy
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
self use littles
I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.
selfish thinking evil
I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.
self feckless vices
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.
self want natural
The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.
self giving creation
For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.