Self Quotes
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I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self.
Kristen Stewart
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Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good.
Valerie Solanas
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Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait...self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well...an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.
Yasumasa Morimura
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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.
Wayne Dyer
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
Larry Brilliant
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
Banana Yoshimoto
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I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
Barton Gellman
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If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.
Victoria Strauss
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New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.
Vance Packard
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My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.
Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
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One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
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I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
Whitney Houston
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Make up your mind that you will become the seeker of your own higher self.
Ma Jaya
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
Rita Mae Brown
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When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
Haile Gerima
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I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
Erykah Badu
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There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
Emma Orczy
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When I am dancing, it feels like my prayer. It's like an offering. I offer my head back to the dance, I offer my shoulders back to the dance, my elbows, my hands, my spine, my knees, my feet, my whole self, my bones, my blood, my experience, my suffering... I offer it all back to the dance and I say: take it, do whatever you want with me. Release me.
Gabrielle Roth
