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Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.
When was the last time you thanked you for always being there for you? Self appreciation soothes an aching soul.
Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.
I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.
May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.
Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.
It takes a tremendous act of courage to admit to yourself that you are not defective in any way whatsoever.
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior
Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.
Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.
I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.
As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.
A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.
Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.
Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing
It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.
I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself.
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.
I have role models, but I take the attributes of the people that I admire, and I use them to create my best self.
I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.
When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.
Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.
Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.
My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.
Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.
After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.
The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.