4,826 Quotes About Self

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive. Besides, I've become increasingly doubtful as to whether I can die at all. But let's not get into that.

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.

You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

...trade the life of self pity, that I was living, for a life of purpose! - Rebekah -