Self Quotes
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A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.
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The supreme blossoming of character lies or reside in renounciation or renuncement and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.)
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Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.
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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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A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.
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Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful.
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...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.
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Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect
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There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit.
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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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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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An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.
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I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.
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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
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Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity
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A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.
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A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
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Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
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Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my abusive mail - sentencing me to exquisite Oriental tortures and relegating me to hell-fire and damnation -comes from self-admitted Catholics.
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When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.
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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
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…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith
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I do know that some people believe that I see gender as a "choice" rather than as an essential and firmly fixed sense of self. My view is actually not that. No matter whether one feels one's gendered and sexed reality to be firmly fixed or less so, every person should have the right to determine the legal and linguistic terms of their embodied lives.
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The profound self is a universal self.
