Self Quotes - Page 376

...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community.

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.