Self Quotes

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-consciousness, that is fearless, uncorrupted, and passionately interested in the truth?.

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self.

Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.

I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.

The self-fulfilled woman is far from reality.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.

So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I practice self-love, give love, and surround myself with people who bring out the best in me.

The only thing I can definitely say is that you cease to be self-conscious after you've had to kiss somebody on-camera with 30 people watching.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.

My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.

Love your self's self where it lives.

I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies.

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.

I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness.

A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms.

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.