Self Quotes
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“Do you deny it?” Grimani persisted. “That you went to Marchese Rinaldo's room to ask him about your notebook?” “Deny it? Only the greatest selfrestraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.”
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Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
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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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One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.
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The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.
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Self-esteem is something you have to earn!
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Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost Love can be given to no 'other'. Love of friends is for the sake of Self, not for body to body. True love has no Lover or Beloved because all Love is Love of Self.
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A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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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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I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.
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Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
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God…is the center of all selves.
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We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs.
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It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.
