Top 1200 Self Inflicted Wounds Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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.

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

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.

The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

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.

Self-conceit may lead to 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.

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.

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

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

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

Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

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

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.

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

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.

There are a lot of veterans out there who would not think their wounds would be the source of poor jokes in bad taste to a hysterically laughing audience.

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

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.

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

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

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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

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

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

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.

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

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

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.

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

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

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.

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

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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