Quotes of: Self Keyword

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Tom Petty

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Samuel Ullman

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Wislawa Szymborska

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

Joel Edgerton

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Barry Eisler

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Jeanette Winterson

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Robin Tunney

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Accelerando

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

The Age of Innocence

There is a correlation between the severity of a person’s moods and a lack of self-knowledge.

Hausfrau

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Indiana

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Jane Eyre

Are ya waiting for an invitation? Getchya self in. I ain’t gonna scare ya.

Johnny Fracture

Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.

Rules for Old Men Waiting

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

Selected Essays

She had underestimated the human capacity for self-destruction.

Mort[e]

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Merrick

Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!

Only the Deplorable

A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.

LIFE

The ultimate barrier against love is the barrier of the constructed self.

The Love Mindset