Self Quotes
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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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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.
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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.
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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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The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.
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I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
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Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge elementary mistake, the betrayal of that within me which is greater than I--in complacent adjustment to alien demands.
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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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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
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Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment.
