Self Quotes
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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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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
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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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Writing is a form of self-flagellation.
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Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.
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I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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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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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
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We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
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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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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
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When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.
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The self (or “object self”) and the observing self.
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To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards
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I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.
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I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.
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Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.
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Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.
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It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
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Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.
