Quotes About Self

provides empirical support for the notion that an infant's sense of self emerges from the affective quality of relationship with the primary caregiver.

mental agency may be more usefully seen as a developing or constructed capacity.

understanding of the self as a mental agent grows out of interpersonal experience, particularly primary-object relationships

According to Damasio, the core self is the foundation of consciousness, and the autobiographical self is its glory

For an octopus, its arms are partly self

Churchill is still warning his people that "Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping it will eat you last," and imploring that "Nothing can save England if she will not save herself.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

We are all created as self-developing organisms. It's never too late to become whom you were meant to be. Even the universe is expanding. So, too, is human understanding. The development of faith is a part of God's unfolding, emerging Spirit. Staying static is not our destiny. Transformation is.

No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.

Die Müdigkeit als das Mehr des weniger Ich.

Logic doesn't work in human relations, I guess," he told Ella. "I try to understand myself as I tried to understand the bosses in my muckraking days. I 'got' them, but not myself. I don't know anything about myself.

I never thought I would be a painter. That I might make a world and walk into it and forget myself. That art would be something I would not have any way of not doing.

He had learned that it was much less a distraction than a form of connection: of connecting to the best part of himself, and to a discipline that demanded he stay open to every sense, to the nuances of the season and to the instrument of his own body, his own agility or fatigue.

I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it any different. I cry because in the universe there is something as beautiful as Kremer playing the Brains violin concerto.

Even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. Metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind.

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

Then I would speak without fear of Him. But as it is, I am on my own.

He feels only the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.”

Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?