People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.

Am I self-righteous? Why not? It's not like I can count on you to be righteous for me.

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

Get naked with your truth, offering the world your greatest gift: your authentic self.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

If I were to say anything to my 18-year-old self, it would be, 'Loosen up. Chill out.'

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

Success comes when you have the trust on self, passion to transcend, and courage to do.

The boys are so well-rounded, they're so self-disciplined, there is so much camaraderie

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

The secret to peace-of-mind is to not identify with anything other than your true self.

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.

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