They might not like your uniqueness, but as long as you are happy with your inner-self, you should never dare to change your life to please them.
Never force you way into a heart that refuses to make room for your presence. Respect your self-worth at all times.
Your Real Self is the permanent atom of your identity, the rock of ages that remains unmoved by the restless tides of life.
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?
Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.
Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.
Listening to one's self as well as to others is a sacred act of healing. There is a higher octave of listening that hears the wisdom within the words.
as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We
Self-knowledge liberates us from the frustration of ignorance, while simultaneously nurturing and supporting our capacity for intelligence. Objectivity
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.
