Self Quotes - Page 22

• A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

  Pope Clement I

  Men, Wicked, Companion

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• Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.

  James Sharp

  Witty, Clever, Sorry

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• There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Beautiful, Morning, Inspiration

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• Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.

  William Torrey Harris

  God, Character, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 271, 1895.

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• Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

  John Novak

  Kind, Restless, Static

  John Novak (1994). “How to Meditate: A Step-by-step Guide to the Art and Science of Meditation”, p.12, Crystal Clarity Publishers

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• I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

  Helen Bevington

  Past, Paris, Return

  Helen Bevington (1988). “The Journey Is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies”, p.91, Duke University Press

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• Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Hate, Complacency, Faults

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• no one can accomplish the inner release of another person. Freedom can be offered but it must also be accepted in order for it to 'take.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Order, Accepted, Release

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• it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

  Jennifer Stone

  Rehearsal

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• I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

  Jennifer Stone

  Thinking, Should, Persons

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• If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  School, Past, Years

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• Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Dark, Ugliness

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.103, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Remember, Forget, Vulnerable

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• It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.

  Daphne Merkin

  Reading, Drinking, Imagination

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• how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

  Muriel Lester

  Names, People, Labels

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.

  Ruth Glick

  Book, Way, Internet

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• But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

  Peter Watts

  Brain, Doe, Lions

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.220, Head of Zeus

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• The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Attitude, Position, Publish

  "Our Exclusionary Attitudes Toward Self-Publishing Must Change" by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 15, 2014.

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• Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.

  Dinty W. Moore

  School, Past, Years

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• I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.

  Jess C Scott

  Pain, Identity, Care

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• One study on the treatment of asthma patients conducted by researchers John Goyeche, Dr. Ago, and Dr. Ikemi, suggests that any effective treatment should address suppressed emotions-such as anxiety and self-image-as well as the physical dimension. To achieve this, they encourage correction of poor posture, and helping the person relax the irrelevant respiratory muscles while restoring full diaphragmatic breathing. They also recommended finding ways for getting rid of excess mucus. The good news is that a well rounded breath practice will do all these things.

  Donna Farhi

  Practice, Breathing, Anxiety

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• Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego.

  Lester Levenson

  Ego, Growth, Transcending

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• Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.

  Mamie McCullough

  Analysis, Action, Paralysis

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• The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

  Thomas C Foster

  Real, Quests, Reason

  Thomas C. Foster (2009). “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Self Confidence, Library

  Donalyn Miller, Susan Kelley (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.73, John Wiley & Sons

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