Self Quotes - Page 34

• the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges.

  Natalie Kusz

  Fall, Dying, Bleeding

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• the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation along secondary or superficial or downright imbecilic lines.

  Clara Fraser

  Diversity, World, Lines

  Clara Fraser (1998). “Revolution, She Wrote”, p.138, Red Letter Press

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• I understand how important hair is to a woman's self-esteem and confidence.

  Cat Deeley

  Self Esteem, Hair, Important

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• I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it.

  Cat Deeley

  Bad Relationship, Waiting, Shells

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• So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.

  Arianna Huffington

  Discovery, Long, May

  Arianna Huffington (2006). “On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to fully know and be fully known by another-we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.

  Arianna Huffington

  Meaningful, Dark, Intimate Relationships

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• The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Baby, Needs, Toddler

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• Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

  Jodhi May

  Believe, Way, Fame

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• People are just self-centered-it's all about them. And we're telling people it's okay to be 'all about you' because you're a victim and it's not your fault. That's why society has gotten more and more belligerent and selfish.

  Jim Norton

  Selfish, People, Faults

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• Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused.

  Isaac Hayes

  Expression, Stills, Self Expression

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• Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.

  Teju Cole

  Hero, Mean, Play

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• The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Expectations, Would Be, Weight

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.18, Vintage

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• Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away

  Chanakya

  Country, People, Political

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• Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Hard Work, Humor

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• The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

  Aristotle

  Government, Creation, Individual

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.16, Aristotle

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• It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Happy Life, Sea

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• Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Investing, Juan, Spending

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Mean, Buddhism

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• The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Unhappy, Want

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• Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

  Boris Sidis

  Instinct, Preservation, Institutions

  "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 311), 1922.

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• The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.

  Walter Lippmann

  Teaching, Exercise, Men

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• The greatest quality that a person can possess is the quality of self-belief. If you believe you can, you can. If you believe you won't, you most certainly won't.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Believe, Quality

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• The Ayodhya judgment will work as a catalyst to maintain peace and unity in the country. This judgment has given a respect to belief and self esteem of the people of India, and it should be linked to self esteem of the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Self Esteem, People

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• how to divide ourselves fairly between ourselves and the rest of the world is the hardest question we ever have to answer.

  Margaret Warde

  Answers, World, Hardest

  Margaret Warde (1906). “Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls”

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• The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.

  Paul Strand

  Gratitude, Thinking, Men

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