Beating Quote by Chris Pine

My heart may be beating but it doesn't mean I feel alive.

— Anonymous

“Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.”

— Brittany Burgunder

I grew up very Pentecostal. I think there's some sort of puritanical self-flagellation that I am very good at doing and probably will continue…

— Ayo Edebiri

Writing is a form of self-flagellation.

— William Styron

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose…

— D. H. Lawrence

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

— John Cusack

Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One Self that…

— Ken Wilber

The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years…

— George Steiner

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

— E. M. Forster

“If she’d learned anything about herself over the years it was that self-doubt inevitably led to self-destruction.”

— Amanda Stevens

“A boy, if he's lucky, discovers his limitations across a leisurely passage of years, with a self-awareness arriving slowly. That way, at least he…

— Ron Suskind

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of…

— Anonymous