Quotes About Self Definition

#1. Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life's momentous acts of self-definition.

Margaret H. Marshall

#2. If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

RZA

#3. Eating is the purest mode of consumption. Our purchases are statements about our social class, our friends, and our beliefs. Buying something as continually necessary as food is an ongoing act of self-definition.

Evan D.G. Fraser

#4. Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not spiritual seeker, executive, teacher, unemployed, you are not wounded, you are not highly respected, you are not productive, you are not blah-blah-blah-blah.

Jan Frazier

#5. When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.

Erich Schiffmann

#6. Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.

Mary Karr

#7. Change means growth, and growth can be painful. But we sharpen self-definition by exposing the self in work and struggle together with those whom we define as different from ourselves, although sharing the same goals. (151)

Stewart Burns

#8. Heaven itself is just a little less than perfect: for perfection, by self-definition, is a static condition, and anything truly static has deceased its purpose.

Gabriel Brunsdon

#9. Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.

Simon Mainwaring

#10. The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

Simon Mainwaring

#11. You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

Helena Bonham Carter

#12. Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.

Neale Donald Walsch

#13. With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

George Michael

#14. Every act is an act of self-definition.

Neale Donald Walsch

#15. Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

Hannah Arendt

#16. For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.

Walter Truett Anderson

#18. To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.

Cheech Marin

#19. I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff was a sense of self-definition and also sort of playing music for music's sake and being part of a family for family's sake.

Ian MacKaye

#20. Any youth which is not misspent is, by definition, misspent.

Hermester Barrington

#21. Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

G.K. Chesterton

#22. You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Phil McGraw

#23. What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#24. The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.

Carl Jung

#25. The new definition of freedom today is self-determination.

John Hope Bryant

#26. It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.

William Manchester

#27. Third, this unitary definition of love includes self-love with love for the other. Since I am human and you are human, to love humans means to love myself as well as you.

M. Scott Peck

#28. Your fear is the sharpest definition of your self. You should know it. You should feel it virtually constantly. Fear needs to become your friend, so that you are no longer uncomfortable with it.

David Deida

#29. My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.

Audre Lorde

#30. Do not blindly accept anyone's definition of your life and define it yourself.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#31. The simplest definition of spirituality is self-awareness. Inside yourself is the peace, love, and truth that are attributes of God. When you contact this place, you meet your true self.

Deepak Chopra

#32. It is the duty and high privilege of every human being to endeavor to improve himself. Effort at self-improvement is the definition sometimes given for religion. It may relate to our actions or to our convictions. In our actions we should aim at goodness; in our convictions, at truth.

Joseph P. Bradley

#33. Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

Stephen King

#34. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

#35. If one attains only the faith in the Self, he will not experience fear anywhere at all, fear will go away.

Dada Bhagwan

#36. To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.

Sharon Gannon

#37. Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. Therefore when you harass or vilify another person, you not only disrespect them, but you also. -Respect yourself by respecting others.

Miya Yamanouchi

#38. Real Love for ourselves by definition includes every aspect of our lives - the good, the bad, the difficult, the challenging past, the uncertain future, as well as all the shameful, upsetting experiences and encounters we'd just as soon forget.

Sharon Salzberg

#39. No one is a failure until that is the only definition of themselves that they are willing to see within.

Srividya Srinivasan

#40. Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.

Abraham Ruiz

#41. Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.

Bryant McGill

#42. By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.

Caroline Knapp

#43. Sometimes you just don't know, what you just don't know until you know it.

If anyone says that meditation and spirituality are weird, tell them the definition of weird is supernatural, and that you'll takes supernatural over mundane any day.

Martha Du'sage

#44. And if I fight, then for what?"
"For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.

Joanne Greenberg

#45. The reader who thinks that rationality does not require a definition should ponder the following: I'll give you a million dollars to do something irrational.

Lakshman Krishnamurthi

#46. I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces.

Paul Tillich

#47. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.

Elizabeth Lesser

#48. Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha N. Beck

#49. This is a helpful working definition of pride. Pride is thinking much about one's self and much of one's self. To borrow words from Augustine, pride is "the love of self, even to the contempt of God."30

Brian G. Hedges

#50. NASA 'working definition' of life, for example: life is 'a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution'.

Nick Lane

#51. Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.

David Levithan

#52. Some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. Some people think it's not thinking about yourself. But, to me, the best definition of humility is radical self-awareness from a distance, seeing themselves from a distance and saying, what's my problem?

David Brooks

#53. Perhaps your definition of your self-system lacks authentic boundaries. You've erected a precarious structure of personality on unconscious factors over which you have no control. That's why you feel threatened by me.

Philip K. Dick

#54. Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

Leonardo Donofrio

#55. You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.

Neale Donald Walsch

#56. For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

#57. Nothing expresses Kafka's innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of "writing as a form of prayer": he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life.

Ernst Pawel

#58. As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for "instructions.

Gina Greenlee

#59. Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance.

Penny Reid

#60. Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

Susan Faludi

#61. The next time you are imagining the worst, look up the definition of imagination.

Robert Lyman Baittie

#62. When the desire for definition, self or otherwise, comes out of a desire for limitation rather than a desire for expansion, no true face can emerge.

Audre Lorde

#63. If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.

Kamal Ravikant

#64. Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

Rumi

#65. Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism.

William T. Vollmann

#66. 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

#67. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer

Sunday Adelaja

#68. Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with.

Brad Thor

#69. The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person; they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state.

Dada Bhagwan

#70. I am sometimes asked about the concept or definition of a 'public intellectual,' and though I find the whole idea faintly silly, I believe it should ideally mean that the person so identified is self-sustaining and autonomously financed. Susan was pre-eminently one such.

Christopher Hitchens

#71. Don't be defined by someone else's definition of you.

Toni Sorenson

#72. The present moment is the definition of eternity. It has never not been the present moment. This isn't scriptural or unscriptural - it is merely a logical fact.

John Kuypers

#73. Know that you matter, your thoughts and feelings matter, your sexual needs and wants matter, your sexual boundaries and sexual health matter. -That is the definition of sexual empowerment.

Miya Yamanouchi

#74. World's definition of success
material validation of self
cold and naked substitute
for inner warmth and beauty.

David W. Earle

#75. The definition of success in life has many different meanings. Don't compare your journey to the journey of others. Only you know where the journey began and how very far you have come.

Eleanor Brownn

#76. The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you're sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

Guy Kawasaki

#77. Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident.

Joyce Carol Oates

#78. The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.

Bernd Heinrich

#79. My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

John Spence

#80. My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.

Idris Elba

#81. For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I
survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II
a self-fulfillment focus ... Love's definition is in a transition.

Warren Farrell

#82. Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

Steven Pressfield

#83. In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by any outer definition and to give up acts of futility. It is to let the world remain a mystery that cannot be captured by science, language, or any invention of the mind

Mike Scheidt

#84. Once you realize that your relationship is more important than your individual point of view. That's where the true definition of "union" lives.

Lauren Handel Zander