Self Quotes
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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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Work is an almost pure expression of the self.
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I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.
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Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
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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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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.
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There are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.
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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.
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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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What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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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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The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.
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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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Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
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I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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Many people who excel are self-taught.
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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 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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I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!
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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
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Trust in your own self more than in all else.
