The Self Quotes
The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.
We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.
If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?
Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.
Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.
You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.
That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.
Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.
We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.
Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.
Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.
No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.
A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.
Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.
A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.
