Self Quotes
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And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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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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I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
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There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often does so in order not to suffer others' criticisms, or else does so out of a kind of vanity that wishes to make others believe that he knows how to confess his faults.
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The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
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As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more people. I know no one.
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In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
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I believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self.
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Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.
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There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise.
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Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits, huffing and puffing along the mountain ranges of epic narrative arcs prepared for us by the Infinite Word Himself.
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The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
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Be that self which one truly is.
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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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Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.
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On the outside, he was back to his old self. Only, I knew there was a wound living inside him, and that wound wasn’t going away anytime soon.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
