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the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.
I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.
Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and swish them around a little.
I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul.
In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.
Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.
Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
But Nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense.
Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.
When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge.
Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self
It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.
The market is the creator of social wealth and the wellspring of self-sustaining economic development.
Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances
As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.
Your mind is programmable – if you’re not programming your mind, someone else will program it for you.
Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.
Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.
Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.
Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.
My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.
We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
A war is an incarnation. A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.
Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.
I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party.
Sacrifice self to bless one another, even as God has blessed you. Forget self in laboring for mankind.
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.