Self Quotes
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There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.
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Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.
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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.
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There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit.
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There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
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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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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
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Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you
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[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
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Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.
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If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”
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No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
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I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty easygoing view.
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The full glory of the hokey pokey is to put your whole self in.
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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.
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God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
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The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.
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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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I want to be as self-reliant as possible and do it all from within.
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I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
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Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.
