Quotes of: Self Keyword

I have a hardcore attitude: a “self-published, ghost-written book” is wrong because the concept behind self publishing is that you have knowledge or emotions that you want to express. When people read a book—particularly a self-published one—...

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wi...

Souls of Black Folk & Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 & Movements of the New Left 1950-1975

The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness will be followed by another - that a coherent matrix has been prepared for this precious self of ours. The guarante...

Self-Consciousness

To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, or love for the undemonstrable. And you throw off every conceptual cloak of self-defense, you give up ...

Variations on the Song of Songs

In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact ...

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

The narcissist, cut off from her spirituality, is one who spends unquantifiable energy supporting and maintaining and utterly and completely fake self, in denial of one's true self, trading it for glamour to compensate for a core of being that is sim...

Stacey Scott Mae

Life is not about in what we are living , in happy or in pain,in poor or rich,but its all about how we are living ,index of human is only honesty in character and self respect, Best Thing we can do in life its honesty,honesty with Self and with other...

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Healing is the journey. The destination is our self. The full recognition of all the different aspects of our self — our joy, our sorrow, our pain, our pleasure....all lead us to the source of who we are. Only by having intimate contact with this s...

Angie Karan

The quality self-confidence is not bad in youth. We rather like to see it, for it indicates usually the possession or the motive power which makes a man aggressive and enterprising. He works more vigorously if he is sure that he is nearer right than ...

Life

Man is a world-forming being, a being that actively constitutes his own world, but when everything is always already fully coded, the active constituting of the world is made superfluous, and we lose friction in relation to the world.We Romantics ne...

A Philosophy of Boredom

To be American is to be part of a dialogical and democratic operation that grapples with the challenge of being human in an open-ended and experimental manner. Although America is a romantic project in which a paradise, a land of dreams, is fanned an...

Cornel West

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Chapterhouse: Dune

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

A Circle of Quiet

Death is known only through dying and truth is known only through diving deep within oneself.

Drop It! Practical Guide to Self Enlightenment

Self-confidence is not a fixed way of being. People are not born with certain levels of self-confidence, it can be acquired, and it can be lost.

Empowerment Basics

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Earth

Yes, you ARE important enough; and yes, your needs and wants DO matter.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

Grace saved my life; it can revolutionize yours.

Fall to Grace: A Revolution of God, Self & Society

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

Boost Your Self Esteem

How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.

Boost Your Self Esteem

Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.

Boost Your Self Esteem