Self Quotes
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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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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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Your self-confidence increases when you know you are living your life according to your highest values.
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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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When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
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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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Abolitionism proposes to destroy the right and extinguish the principle of self-government for which our forefathers waged a seven years' bloody war, and upon which our system of free government is founded.
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There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people learn to control themselves. Through training, they quickly realize that anger is a waste of energy, that it has only negative effects on the self and others.
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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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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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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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I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.
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I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self.
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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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Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.
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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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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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The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
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One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
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Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
