Self Quotes - Page 22

• Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

  David J. Lieberman

  Feel Good, Crux, Difficult

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.55, David Lieberman

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• Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

  Margaret M. Lock

  Life And Death, Disputes, Multiple

  Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  Anger, Emotional, Blow

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• Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X is true, or of why people do Y that Y is good.

  Raymond Geuss

  Believe, People, Realizing

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt himself in the conditions suitable to assist (or promote, or further, -"favoriser", Fr.) his self-control.

  African Spir

  Men, Trying, Moral

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.

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• A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.

  African Spir

  Sacrifice, Men, Reflection

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 53), 1937.

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• The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.

  Lydia M. Child

  Law, Joy, Acting

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• Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.

  Jean Craighead George

  Cat, Firsts, Language

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• We are what we think about.  When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts.  The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Strength, Thinking, Giving

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• If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Eye, Lost, Subjects

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.

  James Sharp

  Witty, Clever, Sorry

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• There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Beautiful, Morning, Inspiration

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• Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Hate, Complacency, Faults

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• no one can accomplish the inner release of another person. Freedom can be offered but it must also be accepted in order for it to 'take.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Order, Accepted, Release

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• it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

  Jennifer Stone

  Rehearsal

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• Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Dark, Ugliness

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.103, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Remember, Forget, Vulnerable

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• how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

  Muriel Lester

  Names, People, Labels

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.

  Ruth Glick

  Book, Way, Internet

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• I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.

  Jess C Scott

  Pain, Identity, Care

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• One study on the treatment of asthma patients conducted by researchers John Goyeche, Dr. Ago, and Dr. Ikemi, suggests that any effective treatment should address suppressed emotions-such as anxiety and self-image-as well as the physical dimension. To achieve this, they encourage correction of poor posture, and helping the person relax the irrelevant respiratory muscles while restoring full diaphragmatic breathing. They also recommended finding ways for getting rid of excess mucus. The good news is that a well rounded breath practice will do all these things.

  Donna Farhi

  Practice, Breathing, Anxiety

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• Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.

  Mamie McCullough

  Analysis, Action, Paralysis

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• The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

  Thomas C Foster

  Real, Quests, Reason

  Thomas C. Foster (2009). “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.

  Susan Forward

  Understanding, Nagging, Firsts

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• Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death.
  Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.

  N.D. Wilson

  Summer, Mother, Desire

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