Quotes of: My-self Keyword

° I no longer saw God's commandments concerning sex and marriage as a prohibition, but as His loving protection. ° I no longer thought of sexual purity as a rule, but as a desired virtue. °I no longer was attracted to the guys that treated girls l...

Sex and the Single Christian Girl: Fighting for Purity in a Rom-Com World

I remember sitting back, on a local beach I called home; thinking about the wild storms I had already faced, the chaotic thunder I somehow learnt to dance through. This time, remembering it, was different. I had no emotional attachment, I felt free o...

Once a Girl, Now a Woman

Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no bad feeling, no malice, no rancour, no littleness in his countenance, beautiful with a man's best beauty, even...

Villette

If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up from the last stop, to continue in the same vein, a vein I had struck when I was a child and went down in the street for the first time alone...

Henry Miller

All I’m arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there’s no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some ...

Sam Harris

I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, o...

J.K. Rowling

I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as mu...

Zadie Smith

It’s good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.

Confessions of a Self-Help Writer: The Journal of Michael Enzo

The interdependent couple is the new setting and their knowledge of Self is an ancient treasure."-Serena Jade

Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience

We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

Revenge hardly mends anything. The son of a bitch you want to crush does not exist. The son of a bitch is your own self.

CHIMERAS

Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids

Where the hell is your sense of self-preservation, woman? You reckless, beautiful, stray cat!

The Calling

(...) I'm not much of anything, (...) besides bored and boring, punctuated by fits of scant self-amusement. And you are ...?

The Cheese Monkeys

La mayor barrera para la comprensión es el pensamiento anhelante y seguir lo que a uno le gusta.

The Commanding Self

Her cowardice had been re-branded as self-preservation, and she was grateful for it.

The Cloud Seeker

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

The Commanding Self

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

The Commanding Self

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

If he makes himself as good as he tells others to be, then he in truth can teach others. Difficult indeed is self-control.

The Dhammapada

Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]

Death Under the Venice Moon