President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people’s faith in the presidency and in government.
The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
I’ve been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I’ve just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.
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.
Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher – the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.
If you’re going to self – publish, you need to know why you’re doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
It is important to have the attitude and self confidence to be Barca’s goalkeeper, and that I’ve got.
I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
I think the self is complicated, that at various times we are all various people, and wrestling actually does a lot with that. You have things like heel turns where a person goes from being a good guy to a bad guy.
Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don’t know it, maybe they’ll eventually know it.
I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It’s enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil.
I write for ‘Self’ magazine sometimes.
To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
A guy who’s actually self destructive is quite fun to play.
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one’s identity – they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss – loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.
I believe, as human beings, we sometimes indulge in self pity more than it’s necessary. Over my life’s journey, I have realised that overthinking about your problems and indulging in self-pity is not the answer to get through tough times.
When really writing I’m not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point that I’m incapable of speech. I feel that if I start speaking, I’ll lose the writing, like getting off the treadmill.
To me, beauty is confidence. I think beauty comes from one’s confident inner self and attitude. Make-up and styling are the cherries on top of your beautiful inner-self!
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.
I don’t believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.
Every single girl in the world has had to fight to have herself heard, to have space, and to have a self in societies that try their best to deny them all three.
When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it’s a sure sign of pending doom.
I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that’s really the only place to go. It’s the only place to remain.
It is very hard to separate one’s self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.
I don’t think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it’s the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others… I don’t think any one faction can be blamed for a person’s self destruction – a certain amount of that has to be innate.
It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.
The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.
I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.
I’m not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don’t feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn’t mean it has to be about myself.
A lot of times when you’re acting, you’re no longer talking and listening; you’re going at it for your own self.
What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?
Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one’s self and one’s community was really something that really meant a lot to me.
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, ‘Not my will, but thine be done.’
Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
I’d say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that’s turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you’ll spot it.
Be yourself, but always your better self.
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.
Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God’s. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
You’re your truest self when you’re young, and when somebody says something, and you’re like, ‘Oh, maybe I’m not normal,’ you shut it down. It’s always a process to rediscover those parts of yourself.
But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.
The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.
There is only one issue: man’s lack of experience in feeling his Divine self and his innate connection with the Divine. All other issues stem from this.
A journal of the ‘subjective’ kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
