Sense Of Self Quotes - Page 9

• Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Taught

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• A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Frustration, Self, Anxiety

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm self-opinionated and I have a sense of self.

  Paul Eenhoorn

  Self, Opinionated

  Source: collider.com

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• A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

  Betty Ford

  Self, Choices, Freedom Of Choice

  "A Feminist? Definition Varies With the Woman", www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1975.

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• I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

  Deval Patrick

  Expectations, Identity

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Donald Trump gives the impression that he would like to govern by decree. He has that impulse in him and he wants to be a savior, so he says, in his famous phrase, "Only I can fix it!" That's a strange and weird statement for anybody to make, but it's central to Trump's sense of self and self-presentation. And I think that has a lot to do with his identification with dictators. No matter how many they kill and no matter what else they do, they have this capacity to rule by decree without any interference by legislators or courts.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Thinking, Giving, Strange

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I believe that I've grown in my acting career because I've become more confident. I've become less worried about what people think. When I go into a meeting - 'audition', I have a different sense of self when I walk into the room. I'm here to give you my interpretation of your lines. This is my stage; I'm not waiting to be hired by you to be on your stage. We all might die tomorrow, so I'm going to have to live in my gift, today, and give you the best performance in this room, right now, in case this is the last time you get to see me!

  Brely Evans

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.

  Beverly Engel

  Self Confidence, Emotional, Abuse

  "Emotionally Abused Women". Online Chat, www.healthyplace.com.

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• I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind. That's too harsh, or too self-righteous: none of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

  Garth Greenwell

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My overall approach toward art is to remain as open as possible in front of the world, to always be curious, not to be afraid to experiment, and have a sense of self-criticism and a general criticism toward the surrounding. Also, trying to make a difference between serious research and pure gag! And making as few compromises as possible toward doing things that might not be accepted by the majority of society, even if this dominant society is the one which is ruling the art world. To keep this fundamental idea, even if it's a bit trivial: to have the desire to transform the world.

  Daniel Buren

  Art, Making A Difference, Desire

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For most women being other-directed, focused on how other people feel and nurturing them, was (and can still be) a quality that girls were (are) heavily pressured to become. The unselfish or Self-less woman was (is) seen as ideal. The realization and articulation that the cultural ideal of the perfect woman was someone who had no sense of Self and was a key part of the angry energy that drove Feminism to its swift success.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Girl, People, Perfect

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

  Beth Moore

  Insecure, Men, Self

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• I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

  Georgina Chapman

  Mother, Thinking, Careers

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• When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So it’s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.

  Kat Cole

  Crush, Strong, Believe

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• If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Eye, Self, Lost

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Cancer, Loss

  Interview with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2007.

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• The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have.

  David Deida

  Letting Go, Sex, Giving Up

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• Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift often manifests as a change in the questions we've been asking ourselves. Instead of What do I need? we ask, How can I serve? Instead of What am I getting out of this? we start to ask, What can I bring to this situation to promote the highest possible outcome for everyone involved?

  David Simon

  Love, Healing, Past

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• Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self.
  Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and
  consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• I want to be judged by who I am as a person, not by what happened to me. In fact, all the bad things have only contributed to my confidence and sense of self, because I survived them and became a better and stronger person.

  Jenna Jameson

  Self, Who I Am, Stronger

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• The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact.

  Frank Chodorov

  Moral Fiber, Self, People

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.75, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• When I was starting out, I would get printouts of what was being written about me that week. At first it was all good things, and then it started to turn. I very quickly learned, "This isn't good, this isn't helping me." But it was a very important exercise for me in terms of really understanding that one's sense of self is internal. I have had an extreme opportunity to learn that lesson, and I think it's been such a blessed fortune.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Blessed, Exercise, Opportunity

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Six senses keeping
  Five around a sense of self

  Dave Matthews

  Self, Six, Five

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• We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Self

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• If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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