Self Quotes - Page 138

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right to self-expression by any means, even if such means were insane and meant to prove a person's insanity.

Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy - all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that's the only way anybody else is going to.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.

Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

The will to be oneself is heroism

The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.

When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.