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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.
I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.
The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?
Transcendent Oneness does not require self-examination, self-help, or self-work. It requires self-loss.
Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.
I can't bear to be on a train without a book", she announced. " It's a form of self-defence in a way" .
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.
Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love.
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.
People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.
I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.
The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.
Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.
I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.
Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.
Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.
I do a lot of laughing at my own self in life, so I think I come at things with a pretty easygoing view.
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology.
In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?
Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.