Quotes of: Authentic-self Keyword

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

Dandelion Wine

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

A Drink Before the War

Self-identity is about content not the container that carry the identity,contextual value and not a solo island. It is about conception and not just a birth process.

Discovering Yourself

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Ender's Game

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Eat, Pray, Love

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

Eisenhower in War and Peace

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

The Early History of Rome:

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious and self- righteous while you starve small children!

Flowers in the Attic

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Foundation

...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...

A Familiar Rain

...When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing...

A Familiar Rain

...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...

A Familiar Rain

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self

Mistakes are your school of learning therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.

Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.

Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self

When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had ever really thought like that. Self-recrimination inevitably followed.

Glitterland

And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?

The Goldfinch

First love yourself.. the real inner-self.. then only you’ll be able to love the world.. the lives.. the souls.

GWG

No decent art ever came out of self-pity.

Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.

In the Heart of the Country