Quotes of: Self-esteem Keyword

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.

The End of the Jesus Era

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.

Elephant Girl: A Human Story

The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self.

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

A Fire Upon the Deep

When you look in the mirror, remember that who you see looking back at you is a piece of your highest self, the Divine.

Finding Inner Peace, the Key to True Happiness

Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive to be bitter.

Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

Great Expectations

I—though forced through lack of space to assume the form of a stoic guinea pig crouched between the girl's shoe and the glove compartment—was my usual dignified self.

The Golem's Eye

It was humanity's ability to heal so quickly, by means of babies, which encouraged so many people to think of explosions as show business, as highly theatrical forms of self-expression, and little more.

Galápagos

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

She didn't want to forget how deeply she had loved him, how important it had been to her; she felt as if to discard the memory would be a betrayal of her younger self.

Happily Ever After

Examine your self-talk. Never speak to yourself more harshly than you would to a small child.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

80% of man's happiness is based on love - love for others, love for self, love for family, love for friends, love for work, love for nature, and love for being loved.

Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.

Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America

But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss.

Between Two Fires

There is grace for the unrighteous and the self-righteous alike, and the father loves both sons well.

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

It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia "Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza "No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia

Bet Me

You can replace negative self-talk with optimistic thoughts. It is possible to change a negative perspective on life into a positive life force if you keep a sense of proportion.

Beyond the Tears: A True Survivor's Story

I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black be...

Brad D. Smith

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

David Rakoff