Self Quotes
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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
Mother Teresa
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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.
Judith Butler
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I think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music.
Daniel O'Sullivan
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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.'
Gautama Buddha
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Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
Whit Burnett
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Work is an almost pure expression of the self.
Chase Twichell
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Choose a self and stand by it.
William James
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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.
John Ruskin
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Trust in your own self more than in all else.
Ernest Holmes
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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.
Haruki Murakami
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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.
Gautama Buddha
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I shall gather myself into my self again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
Sara Teasdale
