Self Quotes
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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy.
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The greatest victory is over self.
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Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.
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Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
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In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.
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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
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Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.
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The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.
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Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the handsome prince.
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Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
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It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.
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A large part of my filmmaking self has to do with my love of being in the cinema audience, and my relationships to what I want to see on the screen, what I have seen on the screen and what I don't want to see on the screen again.
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I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
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Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.
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I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.
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From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.
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It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more owned.
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Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.
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Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.
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I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.
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Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.
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The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
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True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
