After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere..
I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least sho….
Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes our selves completely..
Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the ….
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all..
[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy..
I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding..
I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, wh….
Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on….
But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance..
Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented..
I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible ….
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there was a broad range of possibilities and fa….
Blossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization..
Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself..
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowd….
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thin….
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men..
Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively d….
The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient..
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without….