Self Quotes
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Many people who excel are self-taught.
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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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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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Our competition in life is solely with our old self.
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The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self- discipline.
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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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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I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse
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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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What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
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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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Work is an almost pure expression of the self.
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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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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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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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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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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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Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
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There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's 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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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.
