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One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.
One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.
You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.
All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.
Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.
The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.
Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.
I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!
Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.
From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.
Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought
How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that you have been beyond it.
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.
Surrounded by the self -sufficiency of American culture, we can convince ourselves that we have what it takes to achieve something great.
We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.
Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.
Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.
I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.
[Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.
There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.
When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever.
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.
... self-control is not control by oneself through one's own willpower but rather control of oneself through the power of the Holy Spirit.
You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.
I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.
Love of the limited self, the very limited self, is another name for human love. Love of the entire world is another name for divine love.
Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.
Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.
My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside the self.
Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?
[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.