Self Quotes
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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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I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.
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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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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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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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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
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Everyone self-Googles. And, I have, of course, the Google alert.
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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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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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One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
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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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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 greatest victory is over self.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.
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The self (or “object self”) and the observing self.
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There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
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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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One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
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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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Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.
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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.
