Self Quotes
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Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
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Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.
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Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.
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When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!
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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.'
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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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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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Choose a self and stand by it.
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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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Work is an almost pure expression of the self.
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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
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Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers.
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I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
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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.
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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.
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Trust in your own self more than in all else.
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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.
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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.
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I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!
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Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.
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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.
