Self Quotes
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A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status
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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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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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Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.
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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
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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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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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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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If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
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It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
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In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.
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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
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Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.
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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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New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.
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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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I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
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When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.
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I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
