Quotes About Self

The point of simplicity is not efficiency, increased productivity or even living a healthier, more relaxed life. The point is making space for treasuring God's own self.

In a world where one can be anything, sometimes the hardest thing to be is yourself.

Humanity seeks the path of self destruction through its abnormal intellectualism and formation in rational habits.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half…

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

it is often nothing but our own vanity that decieves us

But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.

La arrogancia y el orgullo son cosas muy distintas, aunque a menudo se tomen como sinónimos. Una persona puede ser orgullosa sin ser arrogante. El orgullo se refiere màs a nuestra opinión sobre nosotros mismos; la arrogancia, a lo que deseamos que los demás piensen de nosotros.

La vanité et l'orgueil sont choses différentes, bien qu'on emploie souvent ces deux mots l'un pour l'autre ; on peut être orgueilleux sans être vaniteux. L'orgueil se rapporte plus à l'opinion que nous avons de nous-mêmes, la vanité à celle que nous voudrions que les autres aient de nous.

Pero mi locura no ha sido el amor sino la vanidad.

Il y a, je crois, en chacun de nous, un défaut naturel que la meilleure éducation ne peut arriver à faire disparaître.

La vanidad y el orgullo son cosas distintas, aunque muchas veces se usen como sinónimos. El orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros. –Si

often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be

The mind which does not struggle against itself under one circumstance, would find objects to distract it in the other...

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to out opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what others think of us.