Self Quotes
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Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
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It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.
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In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you're already full.
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To be in love is to surpass one's self.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.
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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.
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Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
