Best shapes & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.”

Giving Self Hard Eye Faces Quality Hair Shapes Clothes Size Oneself Treasure Length Your Face

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.”

Self Enough Desire Culture Gone Fashion Shapes Contemporary Emphasis

Author:Lionel Trilling

“One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.”

Ifs Important Self Can Do Confidence Shapes Self Confidence

Author:John Gielgud

“In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.”

Children Soul Self Expression Shapes Myth Greek Poetic Self Expression

Author:Hermann Hesse

“No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.”

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to shape a better more generous self. Heartbreak is the beautifully helpless side of love and affection and is just as much an essence and emblem of care as the spiritual athlete's quick but abstract ability to let go... But heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way.”

“Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.”

“A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as well suited to affectations as to the affections. The letter is, by its natural shape, self-justifying; it is one's own evidence, deposition, a self-serving testimony. In a letter the writer holds all the cards, controls everything about himself and about those assertions he wishes to make concerning events or the worth of others. For completely self-centered characters, the letter form is a complex and rewarding activity.”

Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

“Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape.”

Ifs Self Winning Race Self Esteem Shapes Esteem Can't Win

Author:Louis Zamperini

“Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.”

Giving Self Values Self Esteem Shapes Adversity Perseverance Esteem Encouraging Priceless Dedication And Perseverance Adversity And Perseverance

Author:Scott Hamilton

“Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.”

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.”

Self Reality Found Social Goal Accepting Shapes Engaged Isolation Righteous Self Righteous

Author:John Dewey

“Choice is the key, because human beings are the only creatures who can choose to evolve, who can shape their destiny. Furthermore, we have been given the gift of "self-awareness," which allows us to step back into our true selves to observe and use our brains to create the world we wish to live in.”

World Humans Has Beens Self Use Choices Given Wish Human Beings Brain Steps Destiny Awareness Keys Shapes Creatures Self Awareness Evolve True Self

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability”

Thinking Self Problem Difficult Ability Effort Shapes Skills Solutions Seeking Attributes Insufficient Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Problems Perceived Self

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life.”

Giving Self Shapes Tradition Aspiration Acquire

Author:Talal Asad

“I love the discipline. I love the schedule of pushing your body to an extreme and getting it to a particular type of physical shape. Learning a new self defense or some kind of martial art that I didn't know before and the loving of that is also hating that at the same time.”

Knows Kind Art Self Body Hate Particular Type Discipline Shapes Extremes Defense Your Body Pushing Martial Arts Schedules Self Defense New Self

Author:Jessica Biel

“I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.”

Way Wells I Can Different Self Light Able Lying Process My Own Taught Color Comfort Shapes Satisfaction Reasoning Zone Comfort Zone Refined Self Taught

Author:John Mayer

“There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.”

Mind Self Body Names Imagine Shapes Diversity Multiple Mind And Body Misled

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.”

Important Self Memories Emotion Brain Failing Shapes Ultimate Intimate Delicate Circuits Souvenirs

Author:Diane Ackerman

“Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have a name for it. They call that mental picture of ourselves, our self-image. ... there's always the person whose self-image is bent all out of shape, like a photo carried too long in a wallet.The good news of the tremendous worth we have in God's eyes can light up our inner self-portrait.”

Persons Long Important Self Light Eye Names Shapes News Carrie Portraits Bent Good News Inner Self Psychologist Light Up Wallets Self Portrait

Author:Josh McDowell

“In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.”

People Ifs Firsts Self Our Lives Awareness Creation Circumstances Shapes Responsible Self Awareness Empowering Live By Personal Life Default

Author:Stephen Covey

“Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.”

Self Used Cases Subjects Shapes Familiar Planes Dull Far Away Similarity

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“I think a more complex idea of fiction - and the human self's relationship with the world - emerges when we abandon this philistine equation between literature and liberalism and human goodness, and pay some attention to the darker, ambiguous, and often muddled energies and motivations that shape a work of art. If we do this, we can appreciate a writer like Céline or Gottfried Benn without worrying whether they conform to existing notions of political incorrectness.”

“If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.”

Ifs Want Needs Has Beens Self Pain Desire Possibility Shapes Garden Casts Monsters Consumers Adam Toil Hunters Serpent Adam And Eve Drudgery Hunter Gatherers

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.”

Self Life Is Nature Shapes Lawyer Infant Bud Nouns Caravans Irises Dragonflies

Book:Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

Source: Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden

“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”

Ifs Knows Needs Self Hard Names Loss Steps Trouble Strange Cost Shapes Strongest Latent Activate Nectar

Book:Say Uncle: Poems

Source: Say Uncle: Poems

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