Self Quotes
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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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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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Many people who excel are self-taught.
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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.
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He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
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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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I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.
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I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be.
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Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.
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The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.
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I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but for me, at least, there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.
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Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.
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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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I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill - a skill based in self-esteem.
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Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
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I think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music.
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Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
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Lend.” “Lend?” Raquel asked. “Yes, as in, lend me your self.” He shimmered into Raquel again. “Why not Borrow?” I asked. “Better yet, Steal?
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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.
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If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.
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Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
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The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.
