Self Quotes
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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 -
If we really want to love, if we really want to live, we must love until it hurts . . . No Rotarian whose motto is Service Above Self, I think, should call himself a Rotarian if he does not make time to serve . . . If we love, we begin to serve
Mother Teresa
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Work is an almost pure expression of the self.
Chase Twichell -
I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.
Barbara Marx Hubbard -
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.
Gautama Buddha -
The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.
Gautama Buddha -
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.
Soren Kierkegaard -
That the object of writing is to write to yourself, to let your self know what you have been trying to avoid.
Bessel van der Kolk
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No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.
Erwin Schrodinger -
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.
Sufjan Stevens -
No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.
Haruki Murakami -
The profound self is a universal self.
Rene Girard -
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
Haruki Murakami -
I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!
Walt Whitman
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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 -
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.
Marcel Proust -
Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.
Terry Brooks -
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
Henrik Ibsen -
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
Terence McKenna -
Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.
Phaneesh Murthy
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The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.
Walter Kiechel -
And as to carrying religion into everything, how can one help it if one's religion is a vital part of one's self, not a cloak put on to go to church in and hang up out of the way against next Sunday?
Elizabeth Prentiss -
Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'
Gautama Buddha -
Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal opens the way for a more radical form of self-determination, one that happens in solidarity with others who are undergoing a similar struggle.
Judith Butler