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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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
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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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You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.
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I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self.
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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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One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
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I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.
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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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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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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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In the Darwinian world, self-preservation is the ultimate shiny good.
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As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
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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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I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more people. I know no one.
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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
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Make up your mind that you will become the seeker of your own higher self.
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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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When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
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If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
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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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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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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.
