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“I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.”

Needs Self Self Esteem Humility Terrible Ego Esteem Giants Buttons

Author:Anne Lamott

“Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.”

Humans Self Character Purpose Humanity Process Human Beings Childhood Terrible Injury Masculine Identical

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment

Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment

“Ruthven surmised that he had hit upon some of the central deceptions which had wrecked him and reduced him and so many of his colleagues to this condition. To surmise was not to conquer, of course; he was as helpless as ever but there was a dim liberation in seeing how he had been lied to, and he felt that at least he could take one thing from the terrible years through which he had come: he was free of self-delusion.”

Years Self Courses Felt Seeing One Thing Conditions Terrible Conquer Deception Liberation Delusion Helpless Colleagues Lied Self Delusion

Book:Breakfast in the Ruins

Source: Breakfast in the Ruins

“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes

“the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character.”

Ifs Knows World Self Character Honor Terrible Appreciation Noble Arguing Reverence Lacking Honored Respectable

Author:Julia McNair Wright

“If you take racism away from certain people - I mean, vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist - if you take that away, they may have to face something really terrible, misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are.”

People Ifs Wells May Mean Self Pain Faces Certain Social Terrible Racism Misery Racist Deep Pain

Author:Toni Morrison

“There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.”

Want Self Grows Half Impossible Identity Terrible Speakers Blindness Accommodate Omission Implants Half Truth

Author:Alexander Theroux

“I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually.”

People Thinking Kind Self Bigs Actors Challenges Communication Terrible Focused Tendencies Tunes Get Real Self Centered Communicators Big Challenges

Author:Rainn Wilson

“Why are you lying awake, thinking that you're a terrible person? To keep my mind occupied when I can't sleep. Some people count sheep. I self-loathe.”

People Thinking Mind Persons I Can Self Lying Sleep Terrible Awake Sheep Loathe Can't Sleep I Can't Sleep

Book:Attachments

Source: Attachments

“There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.”

“I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.”

Self Animal Views Involved Terrible Point Of View Empathetic

Author:Lily Tomlin

“Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride can lead not only to self-exaltation, but also to self-abasement. The key to battling pride is not found in struggling against thinking too highly of ourselves or in striving to think of ourselves as lowly. The key is found in simply not thinking about ourselves at all, but setting our minds on Christ and the needs of others.”

Thinking Needs Mind Self Form Found Christ Struggle Dangerous Humility Pride Keys Terrible Assuming Strive Appearance Setting Settings Dangerous Things Exaltation Needs Of Others Abasement

Author:Paul Washer

“I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.”

I Can Self Middle Self Esteem Terrible Esteem Narcissism Boundless Publication No Confidence

Author:Anne Lamott

“I can never remember names. I'm so self-centered and have a terrible memory.”

I Can Self Remember Names Memories Terrible Self Centered

Author:Jim Shaw

“I don't watch anything I'm in. Not even on set. I won't go over to the monitor to watch what we've just shot. It's too terrible. I think I'm just very self-conscious.”

Thinking Self Watches Terrible Conscious Shots Self Conscious

Author:Eva Green

“I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.”

Firsts Self Terrible First Time Self Confidence

Author:Lynn Johnston

“'ve always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but afraid to emulate. Impostor narratives are exactly that. When they end in disaster, as Clark's did, or as Gatsby's did, we can congratulate ourselves for our own wisdom. We can also experience, safely, at no cost, the terrible thrill of radical self-invention, of trading who we are for who we might be.”

Persons Ends Self Stories Might Journey Terrible Cost Disaster Invention Defined Radical Narrative Who We Are Thrill Trading Tempted Emulate Alluring

Author:Walter Kirn

“Self-confidence is a terrible, terrible thing; it's also the most attractive thing.”

Self Terrible Self Confidence Attractive Terrible Things Attractive Things

Author:Guy Branum

“You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redeemed and then accepted back into the community through communion. So you didn't have to carry this burden your entire life. Once a week you went someplace you went someplace where you could really look terrible and be loved despite how terrible you were.”

Looks Self Would Be Community Church Week Worst Terrible Behavior Burden Accepted Despite Communion Forgiven Redeemed

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.”

People Thinking Self Problem Self Esteem Terrible Abuse Illness Mental Illness Esteem

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“You can tell your kids they are perfect and don't need to change - which could cause insecurity when they recognize their own shortcomings - or tell them they are terrible, which would undermine their sense of self-worth and confidence. There's a happy middle ground.”

Needs Self Kids Causes Perfect Middle Terrible Self Worth Insecurity Shortcomings Sense Of Self Need A Change Middle Ground

Author:Daphne Oz

“There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.”

Self Choices Terrible Lust Beast Prey

Book:THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel

Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel

“Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.”

Self Young Terrible Independent Preparation Fearful Young Women Spirited Self Absorbed

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.”

People Self Motivation Terrible Driven Selfish

Author:Michael Schur

“In the reason that the contrast between the absolute and the relative is so terrible is because we believe so fully in ourselves as permanent, continuous, and central. I feel insane saying this, but if one weren't so deluded about the permanent reality of the self, a lot of this pain would actually lessen.”

Ifs Feels Believe Self Reason Reality Pain Terrible Absolutes Insane Permanent Relative Contrast Deluded

Author:George Saunders

“I got very self-conscious about the way I look. So I, especially with young people coming into the industry and young actors, I feel it's really terrible to start with their looks. Right? Because especially for women, it just puts you in your head at a time when you should really be focused on your work and what you're saying and doing and not how you look.”

People Way Feels Should Looks Self Young Actors Industry Terrible Conscious Focused Self Conscious Young Actors Saying And Doing

Author:June Diane Raphael

“I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want that. I'm terrible at multitasking and find it hard to believe that no one protests this general trend of using the rhetoric of self actualization to sell you faster and faster phones and computers, BlackBerrys, etc.”

Ifs Want Believe Self Hard Philosophy Terrible Computer Sells Phones Faster Etc Protest Trends Rhetoric Self Actualization Hard To Believe Multitasking Actualization

Author:Elaine Equi

“I don't regard fundamentalism in the United States or in Europe as a terrible threat, partly because it is a self-curing disease. The younger generation drifts away, so fundamentalists always have to recruit to keep up with themselves.”

Self States United United States Generations Terrible Disease Europe Regard Threat Fundamentalism Younger Generation Recruit

Author:Ninian Smart

“Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.”

Self Terrible Lunch Exes Hippie Personal Relationships Adventurer Manic Crooks Publicists Timer Zaphod Beeblebrox

Book:The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.”

“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel

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