The Self Quotes

Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.

The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves. And there is a touch of truth in it, maybe more than a touch.

Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

So many means of self-destruction, so little time.

To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.

Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.

If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

In love, self-love is always at risk.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure / Didst tread on earth unguessed at. Better so!.

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there. It's so easy to get stricken with one kind of self-consciousness or another.

So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.

Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

Stars now also have problems with drugs, and it can be even harder being so out in the public eye - it's hard for them to keep their sanity and normal self present, but they can do it.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

I always try to look at the episode overall, and try to figure out where I can add something that's a little ironic or self-aware or light because I think that's what makes the show special.