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Self Quotes
"Without knowing the essential nature of this (referring to the self), we are trying to make a life outside. That is the biggest mistake humanity has made. The first and foremost thing you must know is this (referring to the selfx). Then you can handle the external like a play, without any effort."
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"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."
Self,
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"Understand and value ur minute.God increase my value."
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"That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self."
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"I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone."
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"The boundaries of your abilities are set by no one else but yourself, ultimately, and it is up to you when they will be pushed."
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"You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day."
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"You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself and others, you may find the happiness that has always eluded you."
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"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."
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"One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are."
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"The idea has come to me that what I want now to do is to saturate every atom. I mean to eliminate all waste, deadness, superfluity: to give the moment whole; whatever it includes. Say that the moment is a combination of thought; sensation; the voice of the sea. Waste, deadness, come from the inclusion of things that don't belong to the moment; this appalling narrative business of the realist: getting on from lunch to dinner: it is false, unreal, merely conventional."
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"Don't give-up on your greatest masterpiece - you."
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"This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life."
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"When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid."
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"Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy."
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"What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind's reflection."
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"But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of my self, it requires me to do things musically that I wouldn't normally do left to my own devices."
Self,
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"That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds."
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"Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense."
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"Every human being has to build a secret temple in his soul where he can shelter himself and find himself again and again."
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"Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier."
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"I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying."
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