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The worst things weren't outside of you.Collection: Self
Sometimes I surprise my own damn self.Collection: Self
What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave your self behind.Collection: Self
So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.Collection: Self
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.Collection: Self
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.Collection: Self
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond, 'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self? What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r! Aye: frailty, thy name-- belike--is Force.Collection: Self
I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.Collection: Self
Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.Collection: Self
What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No matter what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that is has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.Collection: Self
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.Collection: Self
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.Collection: Self
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know that they are eccentric.Collection: Self
Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.Collection: Self
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.Collection: Self
Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.” Dannyl straightened in protest. “Underneath what?” The Elyne stood up, waving one hand in Dannyl’s direction. “All…that.” “I’m reeling at your descriptive clarity,” Dannyl told him.Collection: Self
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.Collection: Self
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.Collection: Self
Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.Collection: Self
I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.Collection: Self
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked - each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.Collection: Self
If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found.Collection: Self
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.Collection: Self
What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.Collection: Self
Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.Collection: Self
Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.Collection: Self
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.Collection: Self
The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.Collection: Self
You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.Collection: Self
Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.Collection: Self
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.Collection: Self
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.Collection: Self
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.Collection: Self
most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.Collection: Self
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.Collection: Self
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.Collection: Self
... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.Collection: Self
Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.Collection: Self
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.Collection: Self
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!Collection: Self
We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.Collection: Self
We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.Collection: Self
It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.Collection: Self
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.Collection: Self
To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.Collection: Self
Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.Collection: Self