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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world. — Tanit Phoenix

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something. — Gwen Stefani

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young. — Christie Hefner

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. — Jim Harrison

There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself. — Gary Hopkins

If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence. — Dalai Lama

You can kill me, you mean. You can destroy my sense of self and replace it with one you approve of. — Ann Leckie

Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness. — Denis Waitley

The one thing that is braver each day than I is my sense of self-preservation It moves not, and stands not, unless it is driven by something — Elliott Colla

Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter. — Gay Talese

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life. — Frederick Lenz

The Bible is always short on details. Didn't Stephen's innate sense of self-preservation thwart his martyrdom at all? — Hope Jahren

Love is annoying like that. It takes away your sense of humor and self-preservation. — Audrey Hart

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live. — Criss Jami

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence. — Jeannette Walls

I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do. — Susie Orbach

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing. — Miguel Nicolelis

People are a soul-ego-spacesuit. — Stefan Emunds

The sense of community is indispensable ... to full self-realization. — Herbert J. Muller

I like a man with a nice, self-deprecating sense of humour. — Christina Hendricks

When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth. — Jay Leno

Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars. — Harper Lee

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. — Bryant H. McGill

Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives. — Dan Millman

She'd felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self. — Marie Rutkoski

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. — Charles Horton Cooley

Synchronicity - the sense of significance beyond chance — Elisabeth Y. Fitzhugh

we don't develop along these lines, we will have poor differentiation and a very fragile sense of self. We will feel overly anxious about being loved — Allen Berger

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships. — John Gray

Narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet. — Anna C. Salter

I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself. — Will Ferrell

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other. — Mika Brzezinski

With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Her sense of humor is indistinguishable from her sense of self. — David Levithan

I'm a busy author with a sense of Humor, so hang, it's a bumpy ride"! — Marilyn Fowler

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away. — Frederick Lenz

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled, to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension, to be born every day, to feel a sense of self. — Erich Fromm

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Lord Chesterfield

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life. — Gretchen Wilson

I have a strong sense of self, but that's not a negative thing. — Ray Lamontagne

The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric. — Thornton Wilder

A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results. — John Gray

Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance. — Julia Cameron

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself ... — A.S. Byatt

I've got a sense of self-preservation. OK, granted , it's still in the original shrink wrap but I've got one if I ever want to use it. — Rachel Caine

Along with the loss of the sense of self has gone a loss of our language for communicating deeply personal meanings to each other. — Rollo May

[W]ith the sense of self gone, ... actions naturally become uncalculated and free. — Steve Hagen

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory. — Dan Chaon

Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness. — Dean Ornish

When a witch embodies self-love, her energy becomes magnetic and her sense of possibility becomes contagious. — Dacha Avelin

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf. — Alice S. Rossi

The sense of your own experience will grow along with your confidence. — Auliq Ice

Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life. — Stephen Covey

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis. — Stephen Rodrick

Oh, I've no sense of self-preservation," Reynard replied easily. "That's what I depend on you for. — Martha Wells

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. — Camille Paglia

Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53) — Sarah Ban Breathnach

The cynics are correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessitated option that most appeals to us. — Will Self

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books. — Beatrice Sparks

Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection. — Frederick Lenz

Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect. — Cressida Cowell

Luckily my sense of self is not predicated on whether or not you find me interesting. — Eden Sharp

The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source. — Susan Jeffers

Infidelity reduces and diminishes, leaving nothing where you once had a sense of self-worth. — Sue Grafton

Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self. — Aberjhani

Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in. — Lolah Runda

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value. — Robert Kraft

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that. — Will Self

It's not about what people think. It's about who you are. — Cinda Williams Chima

Rado explains that people with depression are usually too dependent on the judgments of others for their own sense of self-esteem. — Nick Dubin

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self. — Lexa Doig

A poor childhood in West Virginia had left Maura with a strong sense of self-reliance, a high tolerance for discomfort, and a black sense of humor. — Maggie Stiefvater

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me. — Samantha Harvey

We do just about anything to avoid pain and preserve a sense of self, and this compulsion often results in us creating psychological defenses. — Tom Butler-Bowdon

Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane. — Daniel Klein

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self. — Madeleine L'Engle

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors. — Samuel Smiles

Self-interest and rational calculation can thus look like common sense, but there are other ways of understanding human motivations. — Derek Wall

To maintain the supreme sense of self-confidence I have cultivated, I repeat, 'I am strong, able and calm. — Robin S. Sharma

I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked. — Sylvia Plath

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose. — Paul Wellstone

That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Have good sense, smell the scents, and you will have more cents — Sonya Withrow

When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins. — David W. Earle

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. — Henry Ward Beecher

Sense of worth and self-confidence comes when you accept yourself as you are. not when you're trying to be what other people expect. — Auliq Ice

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.' — Virginia Postrel

A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what's right, and earning your own self-respect. — David Schnarch

Spirituality wants to know and experience higher states of mind and being. It wants to wrestle with angels and look the Creator in the eye. — Stefan Emunds

When I was younger, I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still. — Brandon Flowers

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that. — Ronald Frame

Our sense of being a conscious agent who does things comes at a cost of being technically wrong all the time. — Daniel M. Wegner

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy. — Mohsin Hamid

Your success can't be measured by anyone else. You have to set your own goals and do what gives you a sense of fulfillment. — Rhondra O. Willis

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect. — Henry David Thoreau

Do you have no sense of self-preservation? — Nalini Singh

I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word — Laverne Cox

He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [ ... ] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22] — John Burnside