Quotes of: Authentic-self Keyword

I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'

Mary J. Blige

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Bo Bennett

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

Mark Barrowcliffe

The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably un...

Martin Filler

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Elie Wiesel

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Frida Kahlo

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care...

Joseph Butler

No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be.

Mitch Daniels

If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or sh...

Martha Beck

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Bliss Carman

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

Barbara Goldsmith

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

Jeffrey Deitch

The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.

Keith Haring

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

Rachel Cusk

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

The American Scholar; Self-Reliance. Compensation

It doesn’t matter if she wanted it or not. No self-respecting man would offer something like that to a girl, especially one that’s drunk.

Addicted for Now

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

Allan Quatermain