Self Quotes - Page 385

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.

There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they contribute to the society itself? They reap its rewards without experiencing its costs. No. I submit that loyal, hardworking citizens who push aside their own selfish desires for the good of the whole are the backbone of the world. What if we all decided to run off and live freely without thought or care for society's rules? Our civilization would crumble. There is a joy in duty and a security in knowing one's place...It is the only way.

When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us.

Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited, Self.

Only when self moves out of the way can His spectacular glory come cascading through your life. When Jesus is in His rightful place, all insecurity will fade away and His lasting loveliness will become the mark of your life.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

The Government honoring our treaties and sovereignty is first and foremost. These issues are still the top priority which [Barak] Obama, if elected, has promised us. For us, we should implement the most impor-tant programs right now: they are programs to teach the children a positive sense of dignity, self-worth, and the importance of sustaining their culture, history, language and honor as a people.

Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

As you transition from the past and future world of the mind to the awakened world of now, you will begin to experience yourself in an entirely new way. A way that is free of the pain and limitations of the past, and free of anxiety about the future. And you will begin to experience the abundance that is ever present in each moment.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.