Quotes of: Self Keyword

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious and self- righteous while you starve small children!

Flowers in the Attic

The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Foundation

...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...

A Familiar Rain

...When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing...

A Familiar Rain

...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...

A Familiar Rain

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self

Mistakes are your school of learning therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.

Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.

Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self

When I was lost in the fog, it was as though nothing else existed. And, afterwards, it seemed incomprehensible that I had ever really thought like that. Self-recrimination inevitably followed.

Glitterland

And if what they say is true--if every great painting is really a self-portrait--what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself?

The Goldfinch

First love yourself.. the real inner-self.. then only you’ll be able to love the world.. the lives.. the souls.

GWG

No decent art ever came out of self-pity.

Holy Skirts: A Novel of a Flamboyant Woman Who Risked All for Art

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.

In the Heart of the Country

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

Howl's Moving Castle

An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.

How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality

Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.

Heaven In The Meat Packing District

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

High-Rise

They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity.

How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

To have more, you must genuinely thank more.

How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

The Awakening