Best self & seems Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I awaken in the morning, I am thankful for a new day. I am thankful for everything that I have materially. I am thankful for everything I have spiritually. I thank God for allowing me to experience these things, even the experiences that may not seem so positive, such as developing an illness. I may not understand why I have the illness, but I sense that it is there for a purpose, and so I thank God for it. I ask Him to allow me to expand beyond my narrow-mindedness and self-centeredness so that I can see the good that comes from everything.”

May I Can Self Seems Purpose Asks Christianity Morning Illness Developing Allowing Thank God New Day I Am Thankful Self Centeredness Centeredness Narrow Mindedness

Author:Betty Eadie

“Whenever you are in a perceptual field, it seems like it's ultimate. It's a self-wrapping consciousness. There doesn't seem or appear to be anything else other than the attention field that you're in.”

Self Seems Attention Consciousness Awareness Fields Ignorance Buddhism Ultimate Wrapping

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.”

Inspirational Self Seems Pain Joy Certain Buddhism Amount Degrees Finding Yourself Worthwhile Self Knowledge Just Do It

Author:Frederick Lenz

“These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.”

Inspirational Mind May Self States Seems Beautiful Easy Simple Progress Buddhism Description State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.”

Different Self Seems Form Enjoy Meditation Buddhism Helpful Progressive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.”

World Real Self Dream Seems Night Gone Conditions Wake Up Endless Hinduism Manifold Solidity Dreaming At Night

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.”

Kind Has Beens Self Seems Fans Critical Larry Self Deprecating Jewish History Self Deprecation Self Deprecating Humor

Author:Peter Eisenman

“People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.”

People Self Seems Missing Expression Concerned Individuality Pursue Sense Of Humor Self Expression Identification

Author:Walter Lippmann

“Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.”

Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

“It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.”

Self Seems Walks Slave Abandon Wounded Armor Captives Infatuated

Book:Summer on the Lakes

Source: Summer on the Lakes

“Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.”

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be to work every day... Your job is to write. The rest of it will take care of itself. But, generally, it seems ... you know how that is, you meet people and they have a talent for self-promotion. Those are the pushy people. And you know their writing's not going to be any good, because that's not their talent.”

People Knows Writing Said Self Seems Would Be Care Jobs Young Know How Advice Talent Mets Take Care Young Women Promotion Self Promotion Pushy

Author:David Sedaris

“Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.”

Self Seems Faith Spirituality Differences Doubt Ego Approach Enlightened Exposed Patches Concealed Readiness Confirmation

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.”

People Ifs Self Seems Political Certain Sin Waste Prejudice Reform Deception Selfishness Flaws Wasting Time Self Deception Political Reform

Author:Steven Pinker

“We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.”

People Needs May Littles Self Use Seems Courses Difficult Wealth Poor Rich Share Materials Property Sufficient Apartment Poor People No Love Interdependence Material Things Self Sufficient

Author:Jean Vanier

“For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.”

Children Stills Self Whole Seems Mother Individual Results Creative Evolution Birth Mass Conscious Consequence Blind Impulse Rebirth Self Conscious Creative Work

Book:journal

Source: journal

“The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.”

“It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.”

Men Mind Heart Made Self Hands Seems Success Effort Greatness Achievement Claims Arrogant Shallow Heart And Mind Notable Self Made Many Hands

Author:Walt Disney

“I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome where everything is wild and beautiful and busy and steeped with God that the question is hard to answer.”

Ifs Self Hard Seems Beautiful Answers Wonder Mystery Lonely Busy Solitary Evident Lonesome Excursions

Author:John Muir

“Part of why I was attracted to the idea of owning a gun was self-defense, and part of it was that I've been fascinated by guns since I was a little kid, and I want to play with them. It seems like a lot of fun.”

Want Littles Ideas Self Play Seems Kids Fun Gun Defense Fascinated Little Kid Self Defense

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.”

Thinking Children Self Seems Parent Differences Self Esteem Tough Concerned Assuming Western Esteem Behave Immigrants Fragility Psych Immigrant Parents

Author:Amy Chua

“When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.”

“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.”

World Self Whole Problem Seems Grows Focus Awareness Wall Healthy Size Whole World Pity Shrinks Antidote Self Pity Absorption Self Absorption Awareness Of Others

Author:Kevin Malarkey

“The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original film was. Even if Part II were a lot more cohesive, revealing and exciting than it is, it probably would have run the risk of appearing to be the self-parody it now seems…Its insights are fairly lame at this point.”

Ifs Self Seems Running Film Risk Exciting Originals Insight Remarkable Recalls Revealing Appearing Lame Parody

Author:Vincent Canby

“My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.”

Littles Self Seems Happens Technology Magic Things Happen Command Consumers Analysis Closest Buttons Fired Up Self Analysis

Author:David Pogue

“It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.”

Real Self Feelings Seems Found Fiction Teach Novel Circumstances Lessons Real Life Fancy Self Respect Ephemeral Delicacy

Author:Madame de Stael

“I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

“There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.”

“Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.”

Men Made Self Seems Law Virtue Accounts Willpower Self Will

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.”

Wells Self Reality Seems Party Democracy Media Congress Officials Mature Soviet Rhetoric Unworthy Commentators Concealing Unanimity Sanctimonious

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“I always seem to be chosen to do very flattering things like the beard comb over or go to the bathroom with the door open on Sex and the City or be the guy people meow at in Super Troopers. It's great for self esteem.”

People Self Seems Guy Sex Cities Doors Self Esteem Chosen Esteem Bathroom Beard Flattering Combs Sex And The City

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros.”

World Self Seems Sex Causes Results Democratic Protection Tendencies Combination Atmosphere Companion Regimes Subordinates Eros Self Protection Disenchantment

Book:Love and Friendship

Source: Love and Friendship

“This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.”

Knows Years Kind Ends Self Seems Fall Interest Written Sadness Economic Strange Europe Died Greed Noble Experiments Communism Iron Curtains Self Interest Economic Systems Iron Curtain

Author:Bill Bryson

“In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.”

“Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.”

Men Way Long Self Seems Action Moral Ambition Conscious Resources Rejects Exhausted Recovering Respiration

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.”

“In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.”

Ifs Persons Made Self Done Seems Used Suffering Dies Social United Reflection Relation Stuck Used To Be Torture Superstitions Pins Witchcraft Counterparts

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.”

Giving Firsts Littles Made Self Seems Rooms Effort Known Struggle Fire Sitting Devotion Inward Declaration

Book:The Bertrams: A Novel

Source: The Bertrams: A Novel

“What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.”

Trying Persons Self Seems Government Effort Roles Health Citizens Cost Essentials Eternal Obvious Harm Defense Lists Priorities Germs Facilitate Availability

Author:Keith Olbermann

“Our success at friendship, business, sports, love--indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt--is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.”

People Self Seems Sports Confidence Determined Enterprise Magnet Personal Worth

Author:Alan Loy McGinnis

“Once the idea of a supernaturalistic creation is fully overcome, the idea returns that the universe must be self-organizing and therefore composed of self-moving parts. Also, insofar as dualistic assumptions are fully overcome and human experience is accepted as fully natural, it begins to seem probable that something analogous to our experience and self-movement is a feature of every level of nature.”

Humans Ideas Self Seems Moving Universe Natural Levels Movement Creation Return Overcoming Accepted Features Assumption Human Experience Moving Parts

Book:God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology

Source: God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology

“Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to be self-moving and to behave in unpredictable ways. And recent studies in biology seem to demonstrate that bacteria and macromolecules have elemental forms of perception, memory, choice, and self-motion.”

Source: God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology

“The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we seem capable of levels of folly and self-destruction to be found nowhere else in all of nature. But if we keep at it and keep alive, we are in for one surprise after another. We can build structures for human society never seen before, thoughts never heard before, music never heard before.”

Ifs Humans Self States Seems Found Nations Levels Numbers Alive Heard Modern Capable Destruction Structure Surprise Persistence Folly Genes Large Numbers Human Society Self Destruction

Author:Lewis Thomas

“The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breed pride and arrogance. The true believer is apt to see himself as one of the chosen, the salt of the earth, a prince disguised in meekness, who is destined to inherit this earth and the kingdom of heaven, too. He who is not of his faith is evil; he who will not listen shall perish.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the Almighty. Most people seem willing to accept Darwinism as long as they don't have to believe in nothing but Darwinism. Thus, the strident tub-thumping for absolute atheism by evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins, whom the new issue of Discover Magazine rightly criticizes as "Darwin's Rottweiler," is self-defeating.”

People Believe Long Self Seems Force Loses Accepting Issues Atheism Willing Absolutes Magazines Criticize Almighty Supporter Darwinism Biologist Tubs Rottweilers

Author:Steve Sailer

“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

“Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter. I just surrendered the whole thing to God.”

Years Self Matter Whole Seems Hate Realizing Sexuality Rama Self Hate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more markedly pacifist than men. Instead, and exactly like so many of their male countrymen, some women found ways of combining support for the national interest with a measure of self-promotion. By assisting the war effort, women demonstrated that their concerns were by no means confined to the domestic sphere. Under cover of a patriotism that was often genuine and profound, they carved out for themselves a real if precarious place in the public sphere.”

“The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.”

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