About Self Sayings

#1. We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don't need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.

Lev Grossman

#3. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. I regard myself as a religious ... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#5. I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight it deserves, especially with the rise of self-publishing.

Sarah Dessen

#6. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.

M.E. Dahkid

#7. I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

Kate O'Mara

#8. What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.

Laura Esquivel

#9. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.

Neale Donald Walsch

#10. Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

Paul Strand

#11. What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction.

Marty Rubin

#12. The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?

Umberto Eco

#13. I believed almost every negative thing that I ever heard someone say about me.

Mark L. Baynard

#14. Don't worry about what others think about you; worry about what they think of themselves when they're with you.

Hilary Weeks

#15. All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.

Frederick Lenz

#16. I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.

Kenneth Logan

#17. Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.

Marcus Buckingham

#18. Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

Dale Carnegie

#19. Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but ... well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. Independence has nothing to do with whether or not someone chooses to be single or to be married, to have children or to not have children. Independence by definition is about self-governing. About choosing for yourself. About making your own decisions. All

Krista Ritchie

#21. Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

Bryant McGill

#22. It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

Napoleon Hill

#23. 92. Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping - its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

Maggie Nelson

#24. [ ... ] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.

Nick Hornby

#25. I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.

Jenny Offill

#26. Sexual role play provides a creative platform for us to safely express certain aspects of our shadow self.

Miya Yamanouchi

#27. I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is. Someone who designs projects to make people happy. That's a game designer's purpose.

Toru Iwatani

#28. I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

Margaret Cho

#29. The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.

Stephen Covey

#30. The ultimate experience of being mindful occurs when we forget about everything, even the mindful self and doing. In that mode we are full of energy, utterly self-generated.

Sang H. Kim

#31. The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

Amy Chua

#32. Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform.

Billy Campbell

#33. Her feelings of fear and helplessness had reached such a pitch that they were suddenly transformed into their opposites. Having overcome them, she felt corageous and self-confident enough to tackle any power on earth; more precisely, she had ceased to worry about herself.

Michael Ende

#34. There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.

Immodesty Blaize

#35. The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.

Robert Anthony

#36. We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination

Sunday Adelaja

#37. Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents?

Andrew Loog Oldham

#38. Mastery of impulse is achieved through taking pauses during life's contrasting situations. Mastery of impulse is about developing strong willpower that can be used to redirect the flow of energy in any situation. Mastery of impulse is about responding to the world with a sense of reason and peace.

Alaric Hutchinson

#39. As a society, we need to get lots more flexible about what constitutes beauty. It isn't a particular hair color or a particular body type; it's the woman who grew the hair and lives in the body. Keeping this in mind can only make things better. (341)

Victoria Moran

#40. It's all about how you feel, not how you look

Sean Covey

#41. What makes you think that I give a shit about your self-confidence?

Toba Beta

#42. we don't develop along these lines, we will have poor differentiation and a very fragile sense of self. We will feel overly anxious about being loved

Allen Berger

#43. If there's a takeaway from working here, it's an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.

Laurie Nadel

#44. There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.

Coco Rocha

#45. When you travel alone, no one knows who you are, there's no predetermined idea about how you should act, you are free, and you can be your true self. Every morning you are liberated to create your identity as you truly want it to be.

Sean Michael Hayes

#46. Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this.

Richard Rohr

#47. Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

Melody Beattie

#48. We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.

Nirmala Srivastava

#49. Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization.

Swami Vivekananda

#50. Don't talk about the problem. Be a part of the solution.

Chris Vonada

#51. Of all the things I found puzzling about Sam, this one was always the most puzzling: his sudden, self-deprecating mood swings ... Was this what it meant to be creative?

Maggie Stiefvater

#52. As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s ... You are more self-assured about that part. And that's the way it should be.

Salma Hayek

#53. Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others.

David Meerman Scott

#54. I also worry about the incessant drumbeat of self-objectification: the pressure on young women to reduce their worth to their bodies and to see those bodies as a collection of parts that exist for others' pleasure; to continuously monitor their appearance; to perform rather than to feel sensuality.

Peggy Orenstein

#55. When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!

Tae Yun Kim

#56. People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#57. Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.

Lenny Kravitz

#58. People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Walter Lippmann

#59. Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.

Danielle LaPorte

#60. Our personal history does not inhibit our present or our future. Don't let anyone (including yourself) tell you you can't do something. Find your passion and take action everyday to work towards achieving your life purpose.

Miya Yamanouchi

#61. For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.

Jeff Carlson

#62. It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.

Sharon Law Tucker

#63. For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

Anne Lamott

#64. As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.

John De Ruiter

#65. I had a dream about you last week. It was October 31, 2002 and we met at a Halloween party. You came dressed as yourself; I knew you've been hiding your true self all this time.

Rodney Jenkins

#66. In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.

David Brooks

#67. You are that blue-white diamond, so treat yourself like a Tiffany.

Sharon Law Tucker

#68. There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.

James Buchan

#69. Awaken your mind from the deep sleep of ancient mysticism and make it self-conscious - power will come, glory will come, goodness will come and everything that is excellent will come.

Abhijit Naskar

#70. Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do ... tapping into your natural energy and your most authentic self.

Ken Robinson

#71. I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.

Keanu Reeves

#72. The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities

Norman Vincent Peale

#73. Wesley had called it self-destructive. Evan understood. It wasn't about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all the way to the seams of life.

Leah Raeder

#74. I have to take care of myself. It's about self-preservation.

Danielle De Niese

#75. It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

Bell Hooks

#76. There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

Dennis Lehane

#77. Its never what others think of you that determines whether or not you succeed. Its all about what you think of yourself. All the work in the world cannot overcome self-doubt.

A.M. Sawyer

#78. To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans

Zoe Marriott

#79. Owing to a poorly defined sense of self, people with BPD rely on others for their feelings of worth and emotional caretaking. So fearful are they of feeling alone that they may act in desperate ways that quite frequently bring about the very abandonment and rejection they're trying to avoid.

Kimberlee Roth

#80. The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating." (about Senator Fulbright)

Bill Clinton

#81. Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.

Robert Anthony

#82. People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

Albert Bandura

#83. I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.

Barack Obama

#84. It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.

John Green

#85. We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.

William Cowper

#86. When I play myself, I want to be a slightly better person. It just agrees. Everything I play about myself is kind of true, but it's amplified. We all edit, don't we? If you're self-aware, you stop yourself - you know how to behave properly.

Steve Coogan

#87. Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

James E. Faust

#88. Every thing's for sale out here. Anything you want. About the only thing you can't buy is my dignity and self-respect, cause those were the first to go. And I gave them away for free. - excerpt from: freefalling

Darlenne Susan Girard

#89. When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary. If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

Dale Carnegie

#90. Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

Marcus Aurelius

#91. I'm an interior designer from the soul. It's not about just putting things in a room. It's much deeper and broader. It's about self-discovery.

Alexandra Stoddard

#92. Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.

Karen Salmansohn

#93. Where Watanabe and I are alike is we don't give a damn if nobody understands us ... That's what makes us different from everybody else. They're all worried about whether the people around them understand them. But not me, and not Watanabe. We just don't give a damn. Self and others are separate.

Haruki Murakami

#94. So that's what it's all about! You put your whole self in, you take your whole self out; you put your whole self in and you shake it all about. The idea is that by doing whatever you're doing with all of you, you can then take all of you out. The trick is how to do both.

Lawrence Kushner

#95. When your concern is about future safety, anxiety arises.

Deborah Sandella

#96. If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual's right to choose his or her own hardships - and you must talk about that openly, candidly.

Bill Jensen

#97. I always talk about love but I've seen a life where I can live without it, where I can eat with my hands, make the whole bed, leave the light on for myself.

Caitlyn Siehl

#98. When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.

Pankaj Mishra

#99. When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

K.d. Lang

#100. From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done ... how we have to focus on it ... the questions we have to answer about it ... and so forth.

Melissa Harris-Perry