Self Quotes - Page 283

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.

The reality is you've got to be yourself. You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.

It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits.

Have the guts to be true to yourself. Nothing more.

Everything that scares you is an opportunity to know your best self better.

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.

Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy.

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

I do believe it's possible to play a lot without overplaying. It's when a musician becomes too self-centred that it becomes problematic. You need to be aware of how what you're doing is affecting everyone else, and that's something young musicians often forget. Playing in a band is a shared experience. It's about what everyone is doing together.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

The more one gives one's self in creative union with another, the more one becomes one's self.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.