Quotes of: My-self Keyword

Our stories become self-fulfilling; we will always live up to the story. So make it a desired one

Don't Think Of a Blue Ball

It was his eyes, so challenging and with a piercing look about them. They were eyes that trusted in nothing and they made her uncomfortable around him, self-conscious.

The Declaration

Their Bibles had become an idol before God. That the cross, as a symbol, was an idol, even their own self-image was an idol before God.

Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be.

Doctor Faustus

You, lass, have a self-image problem.” Well, that might be a little true, but she also had a mirror.

Doms of Dark Haven

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

Denial

To produce a primary [karmic] cause which is potentially capable of having an effect, three things are necessary: intention, the actual action, and then satisfaction.

Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State

The way to free your feelings is to simply feel them.

Dancing with Your Dragon: The Art of Loving Your Unlovable Self

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

Dandelion Wine

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

A Drink Before the War

Self-identity is about content not the container that carry the identity,contextual value and not a solo island. It is about conception and not just a birth process.

Discovering Yourself

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Ender's Game

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Eat, Pray, Love

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

Eisenhower in War and Peace

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

The Early History of Rome:

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious and self- righteous while you starve small children!

Flowers in the Attic

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Foundation

...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...

A Familiar Rain

...When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing...

A Familiar Rain

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self