Self Quotes - Page 27

• Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

  Nigel Dennis

  Risk, Humiliation, Readiness

  Nigel Forbes Dennis (1949). “A Sea Change”

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• I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Spiritual, Fire, People

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Voice, Ordinary, Development

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• Imagination has to do with one's awareness of the reality of other people as well as of one's own reality. Imagination is a bridge between the provincialism of the self and the great world.

  Paula Fox

  Reality, Bridges, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

  Arlene Francis

  Thinking, Might, Unmotivated

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.

  Nancy Friday

  Sex, Fall, Men

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• That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Money, Commitment, Dedication

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• clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

  Radclyffe Hall

  Expression, Clothes, Form

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.84, Radclyffe Hall

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• In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Prayer, Voice, Identity

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• Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.

  Mina Loy

  Appreciation

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

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• Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

  Camryn Manheim

  Acceptance, Giving, Done

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• Self-confidence is a must for a fulfilled life. If you have a divine self-confidence, you know how fortunate you are. Study yourself, you have awareness and infinite power within you. choose to build an image in your marvelous mind of what you want to do. Happiness, health and prosperity will be your rewards.

  Bob Proctor

  Self Confidence, Mind, Want

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 14, 2013

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• people's feelings about themselves change when they change the way they handle their money. Once they begin treating their money with respect, their self-respect shoots up as well.

  Suze Orman

  Money, People, Feelings

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• An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

  Edith Stein

  Body, Impossible, Possibility

  Edith Stein (1989). “On the Problem of Empathy: The Collected Works of Edith Stein, vol. 3”, p.47, ICS Publications

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• It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?"

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Knowledge, Demand, Fields

  "Science and Humanism". Book by Erwin Schrodinger, 1951.

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• Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon as the final period hits the page, the poet begins to hesitate, starts to realize that this particular answer was pure makeshift that's absolutely inadequate to boot. So the poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their oeuvre.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Effort, Together, Trying

  "The Poet and the World". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1996.

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• I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

  Jessica Tandy

  Creativity, Thinking, Creating

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• night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.

  Ethel Smyth

  Strong, Sleep, Golf

  Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green

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• I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

  Candice Millard

  Ideas, Landscape Architecture, Reinvention

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• Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor.

  Dirk Benedict

  People, Dancing, Fake

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• Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Taught, Doe

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• most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

  Vera Brittain

  Self Righteous, Righteousness, Righteous

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• It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Said, Walks, Destructive

  "Ariel Rechtshaid: the producer behind Vampire Weekend, Haim and Sky Ferreira" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2013.

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