Self Quotes
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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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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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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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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'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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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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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.
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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
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Through adversity we find our better 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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I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.
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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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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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The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.
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Choose a self and stand by it.
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Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception.
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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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What can not be spoken to the mother cannot be told to the self.
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Some of them had hardly developed a sense of self—they couldn’t even recognize themselves in a mirror.
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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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There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.
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No self is of itself alone.
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Our sense of Self depends on being able to organize our memories into a coherent whole.
