My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self. — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory. — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The way you cope/speak with yourself/treat yourself today expresses your self-worth. So, start the day with remembering to whom you belong!” — Bozena Zawisz Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people. — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
The more that you're knowing, the more you will be feeling and seeing, the more that you will hurt in your heart,… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends… — Moby Copy Share Image
I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such… — Preston Brooks Copy Share Image
Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they… — John Newton Copy Share Image
As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence. — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem. — Richard Winters Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character. — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others. — Madeleine de Scudery Copy Share Image
A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost. — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
