#self

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#back #heroes #live #momentum #narrow

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#inner life #inordinate #largely #life #literature

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#exert #fields #itself #life #likely

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#expect #like #listen #much #others

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#explains #fictional #itself #unlike

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#came #earned #everything #family #i

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#always #being #comes #essentially #first

Being a singer is all about me. About ego. Being a mom is all about being selfless - two different worlds. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#being #different #different worlds #ego #me

Selfishness is a bad habit. That’s why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others. ↗

— Bauvard

#habit #rationality #selfishness #funny

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#angry #anything #i #like #looks