Self Conscious Quotes

• Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Creativity, Self

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• I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Self Esteem, Potters, Height

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• The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Experience Yourself, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 13, 2017

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• Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Anxiety

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.70, BookBaby

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• In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Perception, Enemy

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

  Ellen Raskin

  Life, Blow, Self

  Ellen Raskin (2004). “The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.42, Penguin

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• I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.

  Ashley Graham

  Thinking, Mirrors, Self

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.

  Brennan Manning

  Struggle, Self, People

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• If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Knowledge, Emotional, Discovery

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• We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.

  Katherine Catmull

  Might, Walks, Knows

  Katherine Catmull (2012). “Summer and Bird”, p.61, Penguin

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• Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Self, Details, Conscious

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Love, Inspirational, Philosophy

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• We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

  Kanye West

  Song, Self, Firsts

  Song: Self-Conscious

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• I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Worth, Things In Life, Wells

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Sep 19, 2011

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• It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Self, Illusion

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• You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Consciousness, Best Work, Conscious

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• It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

  Henry James

  Acceptance, Thinking, Self

  1879 Hawthorne, ch.6.

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• I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Struggle, Self, People

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

  Cyril Connolly

  Education, Disappointment, School

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Maturity, Self

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• The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt.

  Dov Davidoff

  Hurt, Self, Bugs

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• You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us... or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else's "story" to the point where you start writing it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Writing, Caring

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 03, 2014

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• Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Strength, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 21, 2012

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• You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Oct 08, 2011

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