Welcome to Pantsland. Have a seat. Empty your pockets of masturbation and throw away your love of self-love.
As an author, I like self-help, because clapping can be done by myself, for myself. I should buy gloves.
My shadow follows me during the day, and then surrounds me at night as it clones itself into complete darkness. Now that’s self-love.
I think any self-respecting educational institution ought to judge its policies by its best estimate of what their long-term consequences for their students and for the society will be.
I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.
Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self.
To be communal is to be something fallacious. It is to be something more or less than being, a subjugation or propagation of the self to exist within the external condition.
The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.
I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.
Now comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one's own self, for we must kill our true selves off in order to survive.
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
The invitation only world is a manifestation of self-realization.
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing.
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Stop being self-conscious when you write. You are the expert about the world you are creating, no one else. So be bold and write on.
We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.
There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.
