Top 1200 Self Consciousness Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.

I'm self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection, but not meditation. This is the most essential point to be understood. This is the essence of a meditative state: that it is object-less. Only consciousness is there, but not conscious ABOUT anything. Consciousness without being conscious of anything - this is the nature of meditation.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of us are even more intensely preoccupied with our histories than we were while living in Yugoslavia. His narrative structured out of realistic details and perceptions with self-conscious meditation blending history, civilization and its discontents, and personal experience reaches a density and intensity akin to Krasznahorkai's and Thomas Bernhard's. An intensely idiosyncratic narrative, enjoyable and thoughtful.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

I am your own self and the self of all beings that exist.

The universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going exodus out of the closed inward-looking self toward its liberation through self-giving... toward authentic self-discovery and indeed the discovery of God.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness...is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.