Can we get out of this system something good for us? We could, if we were united with an intelligent self-interest that we could push, we might be ab….
Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is th….
I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. B….
Say yes to your self. Say no to your anti-self..
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The….
Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won….
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.
even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing me as a rock. Or is it I ….
If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special wei….
For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the "I" and the "self." These chains must be broke….
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so ….
Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I ce….
The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy ….
That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison..
It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me..
We are morphing as we go through things, and then we're presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more than just the preservation of energy….
Order (self-organizat ion): Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what’s most important. Then do those things first..
Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher s….
When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security ….
The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, b….
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred..