You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training. — Steve Ilg Copy Share Image
The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Prophet Joseph Smith warned us to ‘beware of self-righteousness’ and to enlarge our hearts toward all men and women until we… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
I wasn't really performing before I was making YouTube videos with my friend Jeffery Self. Then the response that we got from… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The training was rigorous, hundreds and thousands of hours of meditation, self-giving. But it was easy. I loved it. I would merge… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“Hypocrisy—in other words, the practice of lying about lying—shields us from seeing ourselves as we are: a collocation of fragments that fit… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
When I lacked even the self-respect to keep myself alive, she dabbed my cuts and I fell back into being a son;… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination. — Patri Friedman Copy Share Image
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He who becomes his most truthful self, becomes the leader for everyone else.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
“The pudgal (the non-Self complex) is a jail for the Atma (the Self).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves. — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny. — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
