Self Quotes - Page 28

• When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Whole, Universe

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• Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Genius, Intention, Inconsiderate

  Isaac Mayer Wise (1876). “The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures”

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• I have no home but me.

  Anne Truitt

  Home

  Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent.

  Deena Metzger

  Effort, Strange, Common

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• Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Morning, Tone, Righteous

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• Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.

  Maria Bamford

  Voice, Challenges, Family And Friends

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• The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Independence, God's Plan

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.111

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• It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Filled Up, Half

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.41

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• Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

  J. G. Holland

  Wicked, World, Reform

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• An incipient Mother Man has always inhabited my deeper self; creativity has always been my companion ... I have tried to express myself in a very definite style but by means of all kinds of materials and formats. I wish to discover how my own creativity unfolds under different circumstances... Naples is a dilemma that fatally elicits an oneiric interpretation and I love it and feel grateful because it has nurtured my fantasy.

  Augusto De Luca

  Mother, Grateful, Creativity

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• I am not my self, I am the result of all my ancestors.

  Santiago Martinez Delgado

  Results, Ancestor

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• I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.

  Seishiro Itagaki

  Defense, Self Defense, Convinced

  Oakland Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1939.

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• I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

  Gore Vidal

  Fellows, Musings, Impressed

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• It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

  Robert A. Agresta

  Government, World, Modern

  Inauguration Speech at the Mayor & Council Meeting, January 2009.

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• Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Light, Order

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• Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Important, Slavery, Lessons

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Slave Narrative Six Pack 2”, p.281, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

  James E. Faust

  Cheating, School, Effort

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• Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

  Anil Sinha

  Confidence, Believe, Conviction

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• The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

  Brad Warner

  Truth, Convenient

  Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• A groundbreaking, fast-paced, action-oriented new training program for dealing with mild to moderate anxiety and depression. Self-Coaching is a dramatic and fresh departure from traditional therapeutic approaches and a motivational training program for reclaiming life by breaking the habits that feed these problems.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Anxiety, Coaching, Training

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• Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Courage, Strong, Revenge

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• When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

  James H. Austin

  Objectivity, Brain, Subjectivity

  James H. Austin (2011). “Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen”, p.12, MIT Press

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• Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Order, Avoiding, Knows

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• To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.

  Ayya Khema

  Unhappy, Desire, Looks

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• What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.

  Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

  Giving, Feelings, Trying

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