The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.
The Lord has to break us down at the strongest part of our self-life before He can have His own way of blessing us.
The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.
The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.
When you place your faith in fate, you deny yourself an honorable self existence and right to live in peace.
Love is a prayer, begin it with self. If you can worship yourself without shame or guilt, you will be able to respect others.
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.
The greatest freedom in this world is a sense of self detached from appearances so that we may sacrifice today’s comforts for tomorrow’s opportunities.
To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference.
Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
