Self Quotes
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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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Our competition in life is solely with our old 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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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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Revenge is self-defeating. It will eat away you until there is nothing left.
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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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.
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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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Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.
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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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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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Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
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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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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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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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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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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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Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.
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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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Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.
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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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I shall gather myself into my self again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
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The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.
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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.
