Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem.
Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won’t grow beyond your current self.
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.
I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.
I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.
The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.
While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted.
I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
