Self Quotes - Page 40

• I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Issues, Guy, Guilt

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• I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Thinking, Feelings, Abuse

  "I was so obese I'd lie in bed trying to tear bits off my body: Comedian Marcus Brigstocke once weighed 24 stone and was suicidal but lives to tell the tale". Interview with Richard Barber, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 27, 2011.

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• I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Miserable, Blind, Mets

  "Lessons On Blindness, 'For The Benefit Of Those Who See'". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www-s4.npr.org. January 12, 2014.

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• The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Father, Heaven

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.116, Multnomah

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• I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

  Andrew Young

  Morality, Enlightened, Manners

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• The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Travel, Home, Race

  Maiden speech in the Senate. "Congressional Record", Senate, 56th Congress, 1st session, pp. 704-712, en.wikisource.org. January 09, 1900.

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• If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Men, Ems

  Charles Dickens (1849). “Barnaby Rudge ... With a frontispiece drawn by Hablot Knight Browne, etc”, p.6

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• 'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Believe, Struggle

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books”, p.259, Cosimo, Inc.

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• "Vell," said Mr. Weller, "Now I s'pose he'll want to call some witnesses to speak to his character, or p'raps to prove a alleybi. I've been a turnin' the bis'ness over in my mind, and he may make his-self easy, Sammy. I've got some friends as'll do either for him, but my adwice 'ud be this here-never mind the character, and stick to the alleybi. Nothing like a alleybi, Sammy, nothing."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Rap

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous papers of the Pickwick club”, p.45

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• Mr. and Mrs. Boffin sat staring at mid-air, and Mrs. Wilfer sat silently giving them to understand that every breath she drew required to be drawn with a self-denial rarely paralleled in history.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Air

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.69

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• The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Morning, Party

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.344, Pan Macmillan

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• The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of order ... all great art ... harmonises consciousness with the ego-transcending Self.

  Christopher Booker

  Art, Order, Poetry

  Christopher Booker (2004). “The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories”, p.552, A&C Black

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• It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended purposes. These coders introduce multiplicity where none existed and challenge definitions of intent for the entire environment of programming language, machine and system.

  Stephanie Strickland

  Reflection, Poetry, Challenges

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• To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Mean, Soul, Denial

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• I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

  Herb Goldberg

  Meaningful, Hate, Guilt

  Herb Goldberg (1977). “The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege”

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• If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of “appropriateness”-deserves to be confronted with as many “inappropriate” transgressions as possible.

  Simon Doonan

  Inappropriate, Planets, Appropriateness

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• I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.

  Patti Davis

  Book, People, Amazon

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• Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.

  Patti Davis

  Book, People, Wells

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• I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

  Dan Harmon

  Want, Self Destructive, Destructive

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• Choose to be entrepreneur because then YOU create value. Choose to be an entrepreneur because the products, services, and jobs you create then become the lifeblood of our nation. But most of all, choose to be an entrepreneur because then you desire a life of adventure, endless challenge, and the opportunity to be your BEST SELF.

  John Gokongwei

  Jobs, Adventure, Opportunity

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• As a self-respecting dude, I'd never believed in fairy tales, but in that moment, I did. I'd found my angel to live happily-ever-after with.

  Katie Ashley

  Angel, Fairy Tale, Ever After

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• The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Light, Illumination

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

  George Carlin

  Book, Helping, Written

  "George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances". TV Special, www.imdb.com. November 17, 2001.

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• Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Disappointment, Mean, Writing

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• Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

  Charles Kennedy

  Party, Leader, Paddy

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