Self Quotes - Page 250

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.

Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.

In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange" (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.

Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.

There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.

I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.

A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even with the circle of human relationships but is interwoven with the lives of trees and animals and soil; that caring for the deepest needs of persons and caring for our threatened planet are not in conflict.

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

Descartes says: I think, and I am every moment I am thinking, because I have this inner awareness of myself. And I always thought there was something fishy about that. I don't think there's any privileged self-knowledge. Most of our attention is to things outside us.

We will see the day when we live on what we produce.

Who you are depends on who you meet.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.