Self Quotes
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It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.
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Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
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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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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.
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Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.
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Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
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Since childhood, I've been a clown. I've always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It's my original self.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
