Quotes of: My-self Keyword

It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

The Female Eunuch

Temptation is a test of your , not your self-control.

Fresh Air: Trading Stale Spiritual Obligation for a Life-Altering, Energizing, Experience-It-Everyday Relationship with God

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seems the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

Formerly Shark Girl

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seem the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

Formerly Shark Girl

We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time.

Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives

The self is...a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of becoming ends only when you do, if then, and the consequences live on.

The Faraway Nearby

The point of the calling was, quite simply, that it was appointed by God to serve neighbors. If along the way some self-fulfillment came as well, there was nothing wrong with that, but it was hardly the point of the calling.

Friendship: Philosophy

We are each what never leaves us, what we never see the back of is the self. But what loves us is at the back, as Eurydice was escorting him out without his knowing.

Forth A Raven

Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.

The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

God Emperor of Dune

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

The Glass Bead Game

I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.

The Golden Lily

Be grateful for the life of those who mass up challenges on the paths to your fulfillment. At least they taught you self-defense!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you’ll never succeed.

Gravity

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal — a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world — two snake pits.

Grendel

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.

Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery

I don't believe the inner work ever really ends, and sometimes I'd like to take a vacation.

Garden of Bliss: Cultivating the Inner Landscape for Self-Discovery

In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

How to Thrive in the Digital Age

Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.

How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything... in Business

Don’t believe everything you repeat in your mind!

How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus