Self Quotes · Page 227

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

— Anonymous

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

— Audre Lorde

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

— John Ortberg

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves

— Smokey Robinson

We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.

— Eden Robinson

“Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want.”

— Stephen Richards

I can be one deep all by my self, I dont need no one , fck it, its life.

— Anonymous

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

— Dean Koontz

“Don't play the victim role, empower yourself instead. Place yourself and others around you in a position to win.”

— Peprah Boasiako

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for…

— Eric Maisel

I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall…

— Nelly Furtado

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

If there's anything I'd like to preach about, the loudest, other than the Gospel, it's selfishness. If there's anything I'd like to…

— Jack Hyles

A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition…

— Kemmons Wilson

In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in…

— Bradford Cox

You cannot be all good all the time. You can work on self-improvement, but that doesnt mean you discount the parts of…

— Senoraroy

I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things…

— Maureen Johnson

For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which…

— Renee Olstead

If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of…

— John Fire Lame Deer

Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It…

— Alfred North Whitehead

An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint…

— Anonymous

It doesn't make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don't really see ourselves. We don't watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled…

— Anonymous

A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable…

— Tim Ward

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it…

— Samuel Smiles

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

— C. S. Lewis

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.

— Erno Paasilinna

Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction...

— Anonymous

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

— Elisabeth Elliot

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Difficult circumstances serve to reacquaint us with this One True Inner Self.

— Senoraroy

Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.

— Snoop Dogg

I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

— Christina Baker Kline

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

— Curtis Hanson

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

— Cyril Connolly

I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.

— El-P

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Compromise is a choice. As is the defence of one’s self.”

— Fennel Hudson

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

— Mickey Hart

Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.

— Heather Sellers