Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.
Listening to one's self as well as to others is a sacred act of healing. There is a higher octave of listening that hears the wisdom within the words.
as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We
Self-knowledge liberates us from the frustration of ignorance, while simultaneously nurturing and supporting our capacity for intelligence. Objectivity
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.
In times of suffering, don't turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus.
I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
You don't lead people by what you say to them; you lead them by what they see you do. True leaders are self-leaders.
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.
