The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
Daniel Bell

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

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
Vanessa Hudgens

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
Jeanette Winterson

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
B. R. Ambedkar

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Nathaniel Branden

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.
Keith Haring

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.
Alice Cooper

You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city with horns blowing, the people yelling things at each other, and the all-in-all violence and chaos of the city. Put that on stage with music, and that's what this is.
Alice Cooper

One of my problems is to find the self.
Max Beckmann

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
David Frost

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
Bryant H. McGill

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
Ellen Glasgow

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

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
Leon Kass

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Arthur Erickson

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.
Terry Brooks