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		If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Robert Fitzgerald Diggs 
			 
			
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		I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy Harrison 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Platten 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eckhart Tolle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samantha Morton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathaniel Hawthorne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vilayanur S. Ramachandran 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tara Brach 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vanessa Hudgens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going to a pool party, because I didn't want my makeup to rub off. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hannah Storm 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ta-Nehisi Coates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Gilbert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patch Adams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bill Clinton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. E. B. Du Bois 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Life is too short to be a boring company. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Andrew Mason 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Robert Fitzgerald Diggs 
			 
			
				Achozen