Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition. — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence. — Jeannette Walls 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
Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“Today I realized that I am nothing more than tomorrow's ghost. In a way, it robs my sense of self to know… — Riley Noehren Copy Share Image
I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“One study showed that an individual in an open relationship tends to be "individualistic, an academic achiever, creative, nonconforming, stimulated by complexity… — Tristan Taormino Copy Share Image
The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
The body is an object in which we are all privileged, or doomed, to dwell, the source of feelings of well-being and… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
I believe that I've grown in my acting career because I've become more confident. I've become less worried about what people think.… — Brely Evans Copy Share Image
The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money -… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Recovering is a process of coming to experience a sense of self. More precisely, it is a process of learning to sense… — Sheila M. Reindl Copy Share Image
“It’s called hidden abuse for a reason. Abusers are out for emotional blood when they use gaslighting to undermine a target’s sense… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“Like the turtle's shell, the sense of self serves as a shield against stimulation and as a burden which limits mobility into… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
“You don’t know anyone at the party, so you don’t want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten… — Julien Smith Copy Share Image
“Dear young woman, do not place your sense of beauty and self worth, upon the plastic pedestal called "what other people say… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The naturalistic hypothesis that it’s the brain that constructs the sense of self, now being explored by neuroscientists and neuro-philosophers worldwide, is… — Thomas W. Clark Copy Share Image
“What’s also missing is a sense of relationship. People suffer in isolation from one another. In a world without purpose, without meaningful… — Michael E. Gerber Copy Share Image
“These ideas fit the experience of these Japanese women who often talked about searching for or trying to develop "self" (jibun). Cultivating… — Nancy Ross Rosenberger Copy Share Image
You are ultimately the sole creator of your own feelings. When negative thoughts arise based on past experiences or future worries, as… — Nate Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to… — Stan Slap Copy Share Image
You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“Worst of all, your sense of self becomes a monument to someone else’s bad behavior” — Steven Stosny Copy Share Image
“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born every day, to feel a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room. — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
![“I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love…” quote by Cornel West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22d/cornel-west-708_capacity_i-d-say-writing-memoir-not-so-much-a-mod_376670.jpg)
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