You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren't fighting yourself along the way.
For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for?
If he doesn't want your heart. He doesn't deserve your body. Don't neglect your SELF-RESPECT.
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.
Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.
Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.
Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only YOU can be responsible for it. You have to invest in yourself, or no one else will.
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
The quote above about patience is NOT MERYL STREEP's-- this quote is actually from the pen of Portuguese self-help author/life coach José Micard Teixeira. PLEASE REMOVE IT!!!!!
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.
The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others.
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
