Self Quotes
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Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
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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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I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.
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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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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.
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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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And as to carrying religion into everything, how can one help it if one's religion is a vital part of one's self, not a cloak put on to go to church in and hang up out of the way against next Sunday?
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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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When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret!
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I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn't you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it's shitty out there.
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That the object of writing is to write to yourself, to let your self know what you have been trying to avoid.
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What can not be spoken to the mother cannot be told to the self.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!
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There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
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Through adversity we find our better self.
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Choose a self and stand by it.
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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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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
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Trust in your own self more than in all else.
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No self is of itself alone.
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There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
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Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.
