The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.” — John Joclebs Bassey Copy Share Image
I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled! — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
“I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart” — Che Acebido Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
“Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from… — Tabu Copy Share Image
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
I am often tired of myself, and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality, and so… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“What is to be renounced? The adverse internal state of being that results in hurting oneself (artadhyan) and the adverse internal state… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Dont destroy yourself over somebody elses foolishness. I know they betrayed you. I know they lied on you. I know they talked… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to let go of the ego- it is so precious to everyone. However, once you have attained a state of… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The berries. I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit. If I held them out… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational. — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life. — Tony Horton Copy Share Image
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
For your self to become pure, give everything to what is already pure in you. — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. — John Updike Copy Share Image
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state, — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
“The only person that believes the absolute in you is your own real self...” — Saurabh Dudeja Copy Share Image
To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins. — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act. — Karrin Allyson Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image