Self Quotes
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I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
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Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.
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within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.
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Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.
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There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise.
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.
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In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.
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In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
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When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.
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The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.
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I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.
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When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.
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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
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Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.
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The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
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You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
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Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves.
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I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self.
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Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.
