There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.
If you look at issues like immigration, gay marriage, gun regulation - these are all things that probably wouldn't be a source of much discussion at all in D.C., if they weren't sources of self-perpetuation.
I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises in individual, when displayed ego and self portrayed images are not recognised by anyone.
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action.
To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.
Hold a retrospective approach in your spirit to figure out your loopholes and try to forge out for filling them for a lucrative self growth
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
A path toward Truth is darkness; a journey through the woods, at night, blindfolded. Find 'Self' & you can find Light with eyes closed.
I wish that you knew you could never make it without love for your goddamned self, and that you'll never ever find it in anybody else.
Compensate the lack of love from the world with an abundance of self-love. Work on happiness inside. The external world will respond.
