Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.
Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.
Self-reform is the only kind that works.
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.
The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.
The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.
Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.
Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.
Self-congratulation pleases only the speaker.
Self-pity makes people callous.
Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.
Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.
One eventually has enough even of oneself.
If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.
I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.
Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.
I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.
My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.
When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.
I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.
Self-analysis always cheats.
People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.
Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?
I create my social existence by earning and spending.
Sexual attraction keeps throwing self-interest off course.
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.
Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.
Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.
Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.
In love, self-love is always at risk.
Self-esteem is not based on itself.
Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.
Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.
Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.
Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.
Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.
Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.
Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.
Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.
Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.
Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.
Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.