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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.
To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills
For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.
You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.
The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.
We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are.
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
I don't regret the decisions or direction I've chosen, but I feel it's important to be self aware.
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"
If you are all open in your heart, you are clean. If you are all open in your self, you are naive.
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality
The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.
The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.
I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.
Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
I'm just funnier when I'm drunk. Not falling-down drunk, just drunk enough to lose the self-doubt.
One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
You'll be surprised how much better you feel about the world when you feel better about your self.
If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.
Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.
Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.
American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel.
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.
It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.
In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.
As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.
The most effective way to defeat patriarchy is to defy and disown its self-legitimating narrative.
I have seen the vision and for self I cannot live; Life is less than worthless till my all I give.
The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.