So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.
I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.
If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.
We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
I'm not one to speak about myself. I like to speak about the people around me.