I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody..
When you get in taekwondo, it teaches you the life skills of respect, self control, discipline-that's why I love it. I really attribute those skills ….
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life..
If you fail to gain absolute self-control, you have failed in the greatest victory of life..
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up..
Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill..
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the p….
To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes..
It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do..
Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred….
Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rat….
I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in the dance. Even in a c….
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated….
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would….
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' op….
Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is m….
When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself..
As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial..
Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear..
The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with slee….
Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you..