Self Quotes - Page 368

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.

Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you wouldn't normally say, but you come up with an assortment of words that are really special. It just makes sense even if it's normally how you wouldn't express yourself.

They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Be true to yourself. Never compromise.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of. God showed me Jesus plus nothing equals everything. And everything minus Jesus equals nothing. That set me free.

When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

There's nothing about me that's selfish.

I try to walk like Christ in my life. If I strike out, I don't curse, or throw my bat or hit things back in the dugout, I try to quietly just put my helmet back. I may be very upset but I try to control myself.

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.

If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.