Quotes of: My-self Keyword

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.

The Faraway Nearby

I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.

Attachments

Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.

Autobiography

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

Atonement

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Meditations

The invitation only world is a manifestation of self-realization.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

Hilary Mantel

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Joseph Campbell

Stop being self-conscious when you write. You are the expert about the world you are creating, no one else. So be bold and write on.

Nirav Sanchaniya

We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.

Natsume Sōseki

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

Octavia E. Butler

I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Orson Scott Card

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Oprah Winfrey

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.

Paul Arden

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

P. Chidambaram

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.

Peter Camejo

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Peter Jackson

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Plato

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

Paul Mooney

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

Paul Monette

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

P. J. O'Rourke