Top Self Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Cynthia Voigt
The worst things weren't outside of you.
- Cynthia Voigt
Collection: Self
Image of Barry Bonds
Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.
- Barry Bonds
Collection: Self
Image of Wei Wu Wei
What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.
- Wei Wu Wei
Collection: Self
Image of Yahtzee Croshaw
So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.
- Yahtzee Croshaw
Collection: Self
Image of Mencius
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
- Mencius
Collection: Self
Image of Roger Zelazny
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
- Roger Zelazny
Collection: Self
Image of Ian Doescher
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self? What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r! Aye: frailty, thy name-- belike--is Force.
- Ian Doescher
Collection: Self
Image of Michael Ian Black
I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.
- Michael Ian Black
Collection: Self
Image of David Puttnam
Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.
- David Puttnam
Collection: Self
Image of Matsuo Basho
What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.
- Matsuo Basho
Collection: Self
Image of Susie Bright
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.
- Susie Bright
Collection: Self
Image of Karen Joy Fowler
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.
- Karen Joy Fowler
Collection: Self
Image of Stevie Smith
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.
- Stevie Smith
Collection: Self
Image of Cheryl Strayed
Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.
- Cheryl Strayed
Collection: Self
Image of Kay Hooper
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.
- Kay Hooper
Collection: Self
Image of Trudi Canavan
Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.” Dannyl straightened in protest. “Underneath what?” The Elyne stood up, waving one hand in Dannyl’s direction. “All…that.” “I’m reeling at your descriptive clarity,” Dannyl told him.
- Trudi Canavan
Collection: Self
Image of Francine Prose
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
- Francine Prose
Collection: Self
Image of Simone de Beauvoir
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
- Simone de Beauvoir
Collection: Self
Image of Cole Porter
Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.
- Cole Porter
Collection: Self
Image of Mark Rothko
I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.
- Mark Rothko
Collection: Self
Image of Herbert Butterfield
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.
- Herbert Butterfield
Collection: Self
Image of Terry Tempest Williams
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.
- Terry Tempest Williams
Collection: Self
Image of Muriel Barbery
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.
- Muriel Barbery
Collection: Self
Image of Denise Levertov
What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.
- Denise Levertov
Collection: Self
Image of Indra Nooyi
Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.
- Indra Nooyi
Collection: Self
Image of Claudia Gray
Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.
- Claudia Gray
Collection: Self
Image of Anais Nin
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
- Anais Nin
Collection: Self
Image of Albert Schweitzer
The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.
- Albert Schweitzer
Collection: Self
Image of Diane Abbott
You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
- Diane Abbott
Collection: Self
Image of George Will
Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.
- George Will
Collection: Self
Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Collection: Self
Image of Kelly Miller
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
- Kelly Miller
Collection: Self
Image of Jane Welsh Carlyle
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.
- Jane Welsh Carlyle
Collection: Self
Image of Vera Brittain
most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.
- Vera Brittain
Collection: Self
Image of Robert Silverberg
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.
- Robert Silverberg
Collection: Self
Image of Tom Robbins
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.
- Tom Robbins
Collection: Self
Image of Ki Longfellow
... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.
- Ki Longfellow
Collection: Self
Image of David Brooks
Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.
- David Brooks
Collection: Self
Image of Azar Nafisi
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.
- Azar Nafisi
Collection: Self
Image of Alison Bechdel
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
- Alison Bechdel
Collection: Self
Image of Frederick William Robertson
We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.
- Frederick William Robertson
Collection: Self
Image of Max Stirner
We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.
- Max Stirner
Collection: Self
Image of Max Stirner
It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.
- Max Stirner
Collection: Self
Image of L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
- L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Collection: Self
Image of Walter Pater
To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
- Walter Pater
Collection: Self
Image of Anthony Powell
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
- Anthony Powell
Collection: Self