Self Quotes

14166 Self quotes by 6037 unique authors

Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our beings - in… — Piero Ferrucci
The factors that contributed to my growth were many - finding someone who understood me, exploring the unconscious, awakening my latent love . . .… — Piero Ferrucci
Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim,… — Janet Mock
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of… — Carol Muske-Dukes
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends. — Adam Braun
I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record.… — Roland Gift
Don't live to please others. Don't think everyone else knows what's right or true. Listen to yourself, and be true to yourself. That way, no… — Jane Porter
You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge… — John Shelton Reed
I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist. — Matt Stone
If the defeated and depressed group of disciples overnight could change into a victorious movement of faith, based only on autosuggestion or self-deception-without a fundamental… — Pinchas Lapide
When business starts using its voice for the benefit of the country as a whole, not just in its narrow self interest, it can really… — Ben Cohen
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting… — Coleman Dowell
Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece. — Sylvia Kristel
Human identity is fundamentally an illusion; it’s an evolutionary overhang which lets us function as coherent self-aware animals. But, on a deep level, we have… — Sarah Newton
I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated… — Richard Foreman
I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload… — Richard Foreman
The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress… — Mark Goulston
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of… — Marita Golden
A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of interacting forces. Any… — Albert Low
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a… — Vartan Gregorian
You do not need to be fixed. You are not broken. You have never been broken. You are not in parts. These are just thoughts.… — Marcus Thomas
In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends… — Erich Heller
I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that much skin. I… — Mariette Hartley
When I was a teenager, my self esteem was really low. But when I stood next to Yunho and his crooked teeth, I felt better. — Jaejoong
In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From… — Karl Hess

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