Self Quotes
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To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.
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New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
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When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.
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If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.
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I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more people. I know no one.
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I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
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In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.
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A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status
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When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.
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Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
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If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
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There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
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One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
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Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.
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A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
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Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
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Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.
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Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from within by turning in outgoing love to others, and miraculously your fears and doubts and self-centeredness will vanish. The miracle starts within, not from without.
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Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.
