Self Quotes
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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.
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Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.
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Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.
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We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."
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So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.
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I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
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By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.
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Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
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I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.
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Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.
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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.
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There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.
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But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.
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Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an exhibition; God is looking for a man who will throw himself entirely on God. Whenever self-effort, self-glory, self-seeking or self-promotion enters into the work of revival, then God leaves us to ourselves.
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The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.
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We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
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Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
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I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
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There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
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Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself - you're the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can.
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The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.
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Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.
