Self Quotes
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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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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
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Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
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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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If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.
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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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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
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Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
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Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.
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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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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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It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is.
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Work is an almost pure expression of the self.
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The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.
