Self Quotes
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Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten - and even if it had no causal relation to anything we did to begin with.
Nancy Chodorow
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Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
Ernest Mandel
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True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and through this death a rebirth and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer.
R. D. Laing
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It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.
Joe Sacco
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
William James
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The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union; not on the side of the canvas where it is blank, but on the side where the picture is being painted.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.
Hafez
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Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.
William Powell
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I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?
W. Somerset Maugham
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The battle of yoga is with the body and with the ego. You must conquer your ego, or small self, so that you can let your soul, your big Self, be victorious.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.
Brian Tracy
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I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
