Top 1200 Real Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The self cannot be self without other selves.

I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social, psychological, sexual journey for women and minorities who must pass through patriarchy and the symbolic order in order to claim a self.

The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

I was a big party guy in my twenties, and kind of a playboy as well. I adopted a lot of values and goals that were fairly superficial and, in many cases, self-destructive. They looked cool and sounded sexy on the surface, but underneath, there was no real meaning going on, just a lot of escapism.

Give me some real chocolate. Real fighters eat real chocolate.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Post-?wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-?pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-?absorption without self-?awareness.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading ? some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

This is a new phase in my life. I just want people to give the show ["This Is Mike Stud"] and myself a real chance. I'm pretty self aware and know what people are going to think this show is going to be like.

The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of her childhood that convinced her from a young age that there was something inherently wrong with being black.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.

There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc. These things are tools which we can use - for good or evil. But they're nothing like self-aware beings.