Self Quotes
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to look for something and sometimes they become patrons of art or museums. And that is how the world should go.
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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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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 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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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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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's 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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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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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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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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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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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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I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.
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Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.
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I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
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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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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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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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All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
