The Self Quotes

The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

It takes tenacity and daring to travel the darkest interior of one's self.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

Нou're always in constant dialogue with your interior self versus your exterior self: how you look, and how you're perceived, and then people's preconceived notions of you.

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

I'm so afraid to love you, But more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.

Running will make you stronger, more disciplined & clear headed all of which will improve your professional output & expand your self-faith

The Self is you. It is everything. It is God. That is who you really are.

Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.

If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation.

You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

I wish I had more confidence.

Being your self its all a takes if you want to be impressed someone dont be some one else just be your self

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient.

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

You expand your consciousness, your ideas, your perceptions. You break away from self-adopted restrictions. You grow as you learn to step aside from limiting conceptions and dogmas.

When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.

Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.

Believe in everything you do cause if you don't have self-belief, you'll be clueless.

Be a communicator, not a self-righteous proselytizer or preacher. Many people are only concerned with expressing themselves, which isn't necessarily communication.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

She couldn’t very well let him join her in bed like that. Sure you could. No I can’t. Please? Hush, self, let me think.’ (Grace)

Hush, self, let me think.

They attacked you? (Danger) No, I beat my own self up. What do you think? (Keller)

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.