Self Quotes
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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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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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Work is an almost pure expression of the self.
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Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
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I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.
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Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?
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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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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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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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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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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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Trust in your own self more than in all else.
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Through adversity we find our better 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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There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
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I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!
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Choose a self and stand by it.
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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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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 can not be spoken to the mother cannot be told to the self.
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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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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
