Quotes of: My-self Keyword

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

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

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.

The Art of Self-Control

The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.

The Art of Self-Control

Self-love diminishes no one. It blesses others.

How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

Hope for Man: an optimistic philosophy and guide to self-fulfillment

This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.

Havemercy

This bastard was in a self-help program? For what? Square-jawed, cleft-chin sufferers? Handsome Bastards Anonymous?

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