Quotes of: Self-esteem Keyword

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

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

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

Blindsight

His self-righteousness has prevented him from enjoying the grace all around him.

The Big Story: How the Bible Makes Sense out of Life

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

Bhagavata Purana

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

Barracuda

Dependence on the Lord is wisdom and self-reliance is foolishness. But dependence on the Lord does not mean laziness, it means prayerful action and patient perseverance...

Because I Love You

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.

Clockwork Angel

I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples... but...

Vladimir Putin

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

Douglas Coupland

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his ...

B. R. Ambedkar

Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose.

Diane Ackerman