Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.
It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.
Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.
In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.
Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.
There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.
Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.
I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.
The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.
If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.
I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...
The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.
The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.
In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
I think when you can be supremely self-indulgent sometimes it's easy to get up one's own asshole. I need parameters. I need discipline.
Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.
As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard
The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.
We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.
Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.
Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark; I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.
I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.
The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.)
The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?
Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.
Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.
The people who could most benefit from the self-reflective ego-dissolving qualities of cannabis are the ones that want it to be illegal.
I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Not living in L.A. gives me a different perspective. I'm not so caught up in the daily process of self-congratulations that's out there.
Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."