Self Quotes
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The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all
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I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse
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Work is an almost pure expression of the self.
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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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The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.
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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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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'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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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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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 think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music.
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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
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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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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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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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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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Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
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When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.
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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 sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
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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 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
