Self Quotes
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Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.
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The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
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Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?
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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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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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Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.
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I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.
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The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
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My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.
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Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.
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Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.
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The greatest victory is over self.
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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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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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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of 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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The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.
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Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.
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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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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
