Everyone has a private self and a public self.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.
I didn't have a lot of the advantages Donald Trump had, but I had the most important ones you can get, which are loving parents who cared about me and helped me develop a sense of self.
Sometimes you just do things and let your natural self become a part of what you're doing.
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
I realized that I needed to be anonymous on the street and somebody else on the stage. I had tried to put my street self on the stage, but what they want is an actor on stage.
The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.
I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
