Self Quotes
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It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
Arthur Helps
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Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
William Francis Buckley
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The profound self is a universal self.
Rene Girard
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
Terence McKenna
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It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is.
Chase Utley
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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.
Sheryl Swoopes
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I'm more interested in the psychic intricacies that they build up and try to run away from, and how they self-construct. A lot of my work is about self-construction. Here, it's those folks who are deeply wounded and bewildered. They're not just victims of trauma; they've been shaken so forcefully that they don't quite know how or where to stand.
Chang-Rae Lee
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Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
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What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
Anne Bronte
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You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things.
Eli Siegel
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The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.
Walter Kiechel
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Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.
Catherynne M. Valente
