Top 1200 Self Harm Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.

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.

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.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

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

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

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.

Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

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.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

I'd rather be wrong to set you free than be right to do you harm (162).

Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

Clearly, freedom does not extend to the right to harm other people.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

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.

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one's self in order to be ever abundant within one's self.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.

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

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

Incongruities between self-efficacy and action may stem from misperceptions of task demands, as well as from faulty self-knowledge

I do not adhere to any strict diet plans as I feel they do more harm.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

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

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

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.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

The fad diets are doing way more harm than good.