Top 1200 True Self Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

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

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

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.

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

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

The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K.

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

To do one's best in the face of the commonplace struggles of life, and possibly in the face of failures, and to continue to endure and persevere with the ongoing difficulties of life - when those struggles and tasks contribute to the progress and happiness of others and the eternal salvation of one's self - this is true greatness.

Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

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.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

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

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

Capitalism does not require us to hold a particular set of cognitive beliefs; it only requires that we act as if certain beliefs (about money, commodities etc) are true. The rituals are the beliefs, beliefs which, at the level of subjective self-description, may well be disavowed.

Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness.

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

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

The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self. And that's why, when I put down my instrument, that's when the challenge starts, because to learn how to be that kind of human being at that level that you are when you're playing - that's the key, that's the hard part.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

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

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

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

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

Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest and severe in your self-appraisal. Learn the art of learning, and you are well on the way to achievement. True greatness is reflective, not assertive.

Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

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

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

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

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

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

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

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

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

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

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.