Self Quotes
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Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.
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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
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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.
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I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.
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Be that self which one truly is.
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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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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Make up your mind that you will become the seeker of your own higher self.
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I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
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I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
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To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.
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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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There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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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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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
