I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.
Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.
Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.
'Attaboys' help people. I am huge on attaboy. Confidence is the great ingredient to living and art, with fidelity to self. It's so important to surround yourself with people who give you confidence.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.
I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it.
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.
That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
Having a strong sense of self is fundamental to you, no matter what you're doing. I don't care if you're a stay at home mom raising kids or if you're the CEO of a corporation. It's really important for your survival.
Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.
To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
