Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.
I fall to pieces when I am hurt, but when it comes to my children, I am a pillar of strength, applying balm and bandages and dressing up their wounds.
In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.
When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.
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.
The wounds I carry, she carries them too. The unshed tears in my head flow through her heart too .
[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.
I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.
Our biggest catastrophe was that Dresden was destroyed in the war. But the message of the city is that wounds of war can heal, and people can live in peace.
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.
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.
Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.
I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.
Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.
Self-government won't work without self-discipline.
If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.
Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.
We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.
it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." - Barack Obama, 44th U.S. President
That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.
Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.
Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.
The self cannot be self without other selves.
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-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.
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.
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.
Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.
Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.
The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.
I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.
Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.
There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.
Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.
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.
The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.
Their silent wounds have speech
More eloquent than men;
Their tones can deeper reach
Than human voice or pen.
Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.
What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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