Self Quotes
You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." "I like you better this way." "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying.
Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.
Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.
Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.
When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their own self-doubt.
I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.
One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?
You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.
If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.
I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
When the Soviet Union came to be run by a valetudinarian mafioso like Brezhnev, the thing itself had fallen into self-contempt.
I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself.
