Best aspect & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”

Ifs World Should Self Kids Mother Boys Aspect Ideals Decided Baseball Idealism Circus Self Centered Backyards Grandpa Ideal World

Author:Norman Rockwell

“As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it never turned away. Side by side through all His manifestations of Himself, there were the two aspects: "He showed Himself froward " (if I may quote the word) to the self-righteous and the Pharisee; and He bent with more than a woman's tenderness of 'yearning love over the darkness and sinfulness, which in its great darkness dimly knew itself blind, and in its sinfulness stretched out a lame hand of faith, and groped after a Divine deliverer.”

“If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.”

Ifs May Self Stories Reality Produce Lessons Aspect Symbols Consistent Manipulation Predictions Representing Ensemble

Author:Arthur Koestler

“To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.”

Thinking World Needs Self Seems Action Past Wealth Brain Events Identity Fame Ordinary Concerned Aspect Connections Speed Conquest Truest Sleepy Crippled Instantaneous Speed Of Light

Author:Eben Alexander

“Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.”

Source: The Political Economy of Art: Being the Substance (with Additions) of Two Lectures Delivered at Manchester, July 10th and 13th, 1857

“Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“I have a really good idea of who my readers are and always write with a sensitivity to my audience. I use the F word when necessary, but there are words I won't use, mainly because I don't like them. I don't write about body parts when I write about sex. It's not about the physiological, it's more important for teens to read about the emotional aspects. I do think there are times when self-censorship is important.”

Thinking Writing Important Ideas Self Use Body Sex Audience Emotional Reader Aspect Good Ideas Censorship Teens Sensitivity Physiological Self Censorship

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.”

Way Different Self Whole Black Identity Acceptance Comfortable Aspect Committed Feminist Sexuality Meaningful Oppression Destructive Ingredients Way To Live Pluck

Author:Audre Lorde

“Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or the concept of pi. The idea of self- ownership is the equivalent of Pythagoras' theorem, of evolution by natural selection, of general relativity, and of quantum theory. Before humankind discovered any of these, it suffered, to varying degrees, in misery and ignorance.”

“Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.”

“An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.”

Self Personality Aspect Ideals Scales Selfishness Idealism Projection

Book:After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel

Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: A Novel

“There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.”

People Self Stories Able Fighting Acting Consciousness Battle Aspect Population Percentages Surreal Self Consciousness

Author:Tom Hanks

“Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.”

Source: Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation

“We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent, independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing, changing, changing.”

Mind Soul Self Body Existence Aspect Independent Deny Your Body Permanent Mind And Body Impermanence

Author:Thubten Yeshe

“It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to open up in my comedy work and just go all out, take chances, and have fun with the performance aspect of that.”

Kind Self Problem Seems Able Past Fun Chance Comedy Strange Aspect Performances Having Fun Take A Chance Strange Things

Author:Amy Poehler

“The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that's called the soul. And together the mind, the emotional body, and the soul form the energy field that lives within this thing called the human body.”

Mind Humans Soul Self Body Together Form Spirit Energy Fields Emotional Eternal Aspect Human Body Incarnation Energy Fields

Author:Caroline Myss

“Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency”

Self Problem Produce Behavior Standards Aspect Reactions Adopted Personal Experiences Dissatisfaction Dysfunction Self Efficacy Despondency Behavior Problems

Author:Albert Bandura

“The pure mystic wishes to approach his God only in the all-embracing love. The yogi, too, walks toward one single aspect of God. The bhakti-yogi keeps to the road of love and devotion, the raja and hatha yogi choose the path of self-control or volition, the jnana yogi will follow that of wisdom and cognition.”

Self Wish Walks Path Magic Pure Approach Aspect Devotion Mysticism Self Control Mystic Cognition Yogi Volition Bhakti Embracing Love

Author:Franz Bardon

“The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.”

Knows Mind Persons Self Body Individual Imagination Aspect Deep Inside

Author:Vishnudevananda Saraswati

“People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.”

People World Want Firsts Persons Self Imagination Natural Events Aspect Sticks Limitation Sane Indulge Protective Static Indulge In Obstinacy Magnifying

Author:Anais Nin

“We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.”

Self Reason Energy Sides Dark Deals Shadow Aspect Direct Reason Why Carrie Avoiding Confrontation Dark Side Shadow Self Shadow Side

Author:Lorraine Toussaint

“I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known.... The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into useful activity instead of being paralyzed by it - is that by the time you reach the end of a novel, you know precisely why you made every decision in the narrative, the multiple purposes of every metaphor and image.”

Ifs Knows Made Ends Self Purpose Decision Known Novel Doubt Activity Aspect Metaphor Narrative Multiple Paralyzed Self-doubt

Author:Dean Koontz

“You can't play everything you learn, anyway. You just try to bring it all on-board and use what's useful. In the end, it's your job to own the role and, in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.”

Trying Ends Self Play Use Jobs Certain Roles Aspect Boards

Author:Linus Roache

“Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is how talented people make movies for 14-year-olds while retaining their self-respect.”

People Years Has Beens Self Focus Aspect Self Respect Superhero Alienation Retaining Freaky

Author:David Edelstein

“And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.”

Believe Self Moving Culture I Believe Keys Reflection Aspect Recognizing Integrating

Author:Terence McKenna

“Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.”

Children Self Night Sleep Ability Self Esteem Aspect Esteem Your Children

Author:Nicole Ari Parker

“While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.”

Self Known Possibility Circumstances Aspect Raises Suicide Wounds Consistent Location Compatible Homicide Infliction

Author:Elliott Smith

“Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.”

Self Ability Love Is Self Love Standards Aspect Self Worth Versions Theme Being The Best Recurring Recurring Themes

Author:Jewel

“There are a lot of voices inside of us. We have the voices of our parents, our grandparents, our society, our bosses, our own should's and shouldn'ts, and our self-worth is in us, controlling us a lot. When we can get past all of those, and get to the deep, core part of us, there's a voice within our soul that I believe is connected to our Divine or Higher Self. That voice within is there to guide us through all aspects of our lives.”

Should Believe Soul Self Past I Believe Parent Voice Our Lives Divine Higher Aspect Connected Guides Core Self Worth Our Society Boss Grandparent Higher Self

Author:Echo Bodine

“Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.”

Ifs Wells Self Belief Aspect Criticism Method Property Errors Abandon Questioning Incapable Prevailing Scientific Method Correcting Self Questioning

Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression. And the universe is not only self-organizing, it is also self-correcting. The embryo becomes a baby; the baby is born; its lungs continue to breathe - not only were they created but then they continue to breathe. The heart is not only created but it continues to breathe. If there is injury and disease that becomes present within the body, the body is also equipped with an immune system to correct that.”

Ifs Heart Self Body Reality Moving Universe Next Force Born Expression Baby Disease Aspect Breathe Invisible Injury Lungs Immune Correcting Immune System Embryos

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I think the inner and outer aspects of the self together make one person.”

Thinking Persons Self Together Aspect

Author:Mamoru Hosoda

“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.”

Thinking Way Humans Self Helping Mystery Aspect Profound Metaphor Myth Mysterious Reaching Comparison Way Of Thinking Comprehension Analogies Untruth Profound Truth

Author:Christopher Vogler

“From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.”

Self Done Black Answers Focus Childhood Hair Aspect Critical Black Women Defining Get It Done

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our relationships, finances, bodies, and self-image.”

Thinking Believe Self Body Action I Believe Simple Aspect Including Finance Consistent Daily Life Our Relationship Miraculous

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.”

Self Reality Moving Law Universe Next Force Tree Divine Expression Baby Aspect Invisible Compensation Bud Oaks Correcting Embryos Acorns Oak Tree

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The self-organizing and self-correcting imprint is on all aspects of reality. So not only was your body formed by this invisible hand, not only does your body continue to work by this invisible hand, but every aspect of your life - emotionally, physiologically, and spiritually - is also programmed to thrive, is also programmed for self-organization and self-correction.”

Doe Self Body Hands Reality Aspect Organization Your Body Invisible Thrive Corrections Correcting Invisible Hand

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way white supremacist aesthetics more often than not informs her presentation of self and yet still acknowledge her beauty.”

Way Stills I Can Self White Aspect Appreciate Critical Acknowledge Representation Aesthetics Presentation Critique Her Beauty

Author:Bell Hooks

“Asana is a very important part of life. It keeps you healthy, strong, and energetic. And it enables you to discover and reclaim the innate wisdom of your body. But it is only after you rediscover the self-luminous nature of your own mind that you will begin to experience the true power of asana. That discovery comes from the meditative aspect of yoga.”

Mind Important Self Body Strong Healthy Yoga Discovery Aspect Your Body Innate Energetic Parts Of Life Luminous Asana True Power

Author:Rajmani Tigunait

“I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so in the act of identifying yourself, you're using others to get to that point. And so you're parsing out different aspects of different people in the world. You're choosing not only from America but increasingly globally different aspects of what's out there.”

People Thinking World Art Different Self America Interesting Type Art Is Aspect Different Peoples Really Interesting Identifying Portraiture Identifying Yourself

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco - and I think a lot of what's going on there is that the self-control areas of the brain are finally developed enough to be able to stop yourself from relapsing or just continuing. There is a maturational aspect to it as well.”

Thinking Wells Ends Self Enough Age Able Brain Percent Areas Aspect Addiction Exception Self Control Continuing Tobacco Age 30

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“We don't save our soul and leave our emotions and our feelings and our body and all the rest of it out. That's just a way of talking that emphasizes the soul is so fundamental that we can, in some cases, treat it as the whole person because it actually is the thing that integrates all of these aspects of the self and makes them work together. Now, I don't think we can find a passage in the Bible that says that. We have to read and study how it addresses the soul, and we then see that it is the deepest, most vital part of the human self.”

“I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.”

World Want Writing Different Self Sometimes Whole Judging Aspect Observers Participants Recorders

Author:Allison Joseph

“Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.”

Self States Ignorance Aspect Arise Hinduism Snakes Rope Phenomenal Transient Owing

Author:Guru Nanak

“Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.”

Self Body Age Suffering Girl Issues Self Esteem Lows Aspect Critics Starting Esteem Day To Day Body Image Low Self Esteem

Author:Elizabeth Berkley

“Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.”

Love Self Hurt Aspect Weak Vulnerable Glitter Love Hurt Weak Points

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.”

Self Christian Sacrifice Aspect Christian Life Servant Parenthood Parallels

Author:Philip Yancey

“Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.”

Feels Heart Book Self Hands Reality Form Spirit Reading Brain Pages Intellectual Aspect Sight Smell Release Symbols Thoughtful Hieroglyphics

Book:Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

Source: Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

“I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.”

Self Whole Aspect Meaningful Pluck

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes.”

Ifs I Can Self Eye Night Universe Father Dark Walks Sky Singing Aspect Standing Legs Mates Self Knowledge Her Eyes Expanding Leaving Me Without You Contracting Starry Sky

Book:Tom Stoppard: Plays

Source: Tom Stoppard: Plays

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