The Self Quotes

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.

Note to self: Don't get on Veritas's bad side. She holds a grudge for centuries.

Well, I hope your hard self enjoys flogging the bishop tonight!

Bones leaned back, studying me. I felt so self-conscious. If only I had a shield of makeup, some perfectly arranged hair... and oh yeah. Some panties.

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.

No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that he loves each of us--insecuritie s, anxieties, self-image, and all.

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

I am a self-proclaimed "fitness addict," so I am one of those people who actually really, really enjoys working out.

It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.

Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it.

A lot of times what's satisfying to me in comedy is when a woman successfully does self-care.

Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion. Talking about myself is a little less inspiring than talking about the character.

What the podcast novelists do isnt all that different from what self-publishers do. We put the books out in different formats, but the goal is the same: build an audience and attract a publisher.

We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!

Art is a self-replicating force.

I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there.

All knowledge is self-reflective.

I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.

Believe that you have it, and you have it.

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft.

Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

We got victims out there that are getting shot four and five times, point blank range. That's not self-defense. You're not going to tell me that's self-defense.

You know how great villains just believe in what they're doing? In their minds they're not villains, they're not doing anything wrong; they're just self-righteous in their dedication to their cause.

Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes.

You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.

Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.

You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.

I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning