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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.
Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.
Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble.
There is no question you get pumped up by the recognition. Then a self-loathing sets in when you realise you're enjoying it.
I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.
I know you think that I have some kind of perfect, unyielding self-control, but that's not actually the case. - Edward Cullen
None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.
Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away-- This is no time for thee to sleep-- Up, watch, and work, and pray!
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.
How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.
Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never know what it is.
The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually
You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.
The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.
I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.
They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.
Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.
Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.
I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.
Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.
One function of the imagination in autobiographical writing is to allow the writer to try out different versions of the self.
I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but when I am, I am completely won over.
It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for
What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.
A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.
I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.