Self Quotes
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The Indian gods are imposing, the Greek gods are not. Indeed they are not brave, not self-controlled, they have no manners, they are not gentlemen and ladies.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
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Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.
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I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.
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Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.
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And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
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It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
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A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation or narrowing of the self, an admission of impotence, an offense against generosity and justice. Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.
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Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
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The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.
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Some people are the best lyricists, got the most gas, but they don't know have the personality or the people skills to go out there and network and get they recognition and they name out there. Sometimes people can get in the way of they own selves man, real talk.
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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
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Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.
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Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.
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There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.
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All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
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Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
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Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind
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I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
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A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.
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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.
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Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.
