Self Quotes - Page 213

It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.

When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself.

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

When you help someone up a hill, you find yourself closer to the top.

Visualize and think about yourself as you would ideally like to be, not just as you are.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Don't be a VICTIM of negative self talk - remember YOU are listening.