S Quotes
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“Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.”
“Self-mastery is the challenge of transforming yourself from own worst enemy into your greatest ally.”
“Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.”
Source: Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
“Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.”
“Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.”
“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.”
“Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.”
Source: Meditation: Insights and Inspiration
“Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience”
“Self-parody is the first portent of age.”
Source: Some Can Whistle
“Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process”
“Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.”
“Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.”
“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.”
Source: ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY
“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”
Source: ARIEL THE LIFE OF SHELLEY
“Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.”
Source: Bertie Plays The Blues: 7
“Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.”
“Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow. Awareness of others is a healthy antidote to this self-focus.”
“Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”
“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”
“Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”
Source: Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul
“Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.”
Source: Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee: From Scout to Go Set a Watchman
“Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.”
“Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.”
Source: Songbook
“self-pity is better than none.”
“Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.”
Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath
“Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.”
“Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.”
Source: Dead Over Heels
“Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.”
Source: Epilogue: A Memoir
“Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You think maybe it's time for the pity party to be over? You should stop feeling sorry for yourself and try to think positive,' it makes you wish you could saw their head off.”
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.”
“Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.”
“Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”
“Self-pity is the simplest luxury.”
Source: Bingo
“Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.”
“Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.”
“Self-pity makes people callous.”
“Self-pity shortens your life.”
Source: Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!
“Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.”
“Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.”
Source: Speedboat
“Self-plagiarism is style.”
Source: Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews
“Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.”
“Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.”
“Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.”
“self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.”
Source: Essays in feminism
“Self-possession is the backbone of authority.”
“Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.”
“Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.”
“Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.”
“Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.”
“Self-preservation is an important thing to me.”