Self Quotes
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If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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Wherever you go, there you are.
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I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.
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Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
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It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. To live worthily with self-respect, one has to overcome difficulties. It is out of hard and ceaseless struggle alone that one derives strength, confidence and recognition.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin
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Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful.
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
