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It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.Collection: Self
It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.Collection: Self
I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.Collection: Self
I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully.Collection: Self
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.Collection: Self
There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.Collection: Self
The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.Collection: Self
But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.Collection: Self
To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.Collection: Self
It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.Collection: Self
Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self.Collection: Self
My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.Collection: Self
There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise.Collection: Self
If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.Collection: Self
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and transparency and openness to others becomes essential to the new way of conducting business, empathic sensibility has room to breathe and thrive. It is no longer so constrained by hierarchies, boundaries of exclusion, and a concept of human nature that places acquisitiveness, self-interest, and utility at the center of the human experience."Collection: Self
Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.Collection: Self
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.Collection: Self
The soul is the ego, the ‘I,’ or the self, and it contains our consciousness. It also animates our body. That’s why when the soul leaves the body, the body becomes a corpse. The soul is immaterial and distinct from the body.Collection: Self
None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.Collection: Self
A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.Collection: Self
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.Collection: Self
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledgeCollection: Self
There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.Collection: Self
Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.Collection: Self
I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.Collection: Self
I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow."Collection: Self
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.Collection: Self
Ideas are self-replenishing, like snotCollection: Self
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient.Collection: Self
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.Collection: Self
Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you the moment you come into a room, that can't be manipulated or shaken. Without that sense of self, no amount of paper, no pedigree, and no credentials can make you legit. No matter what, you have to feel legit inside first.Collection: Self
Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.Collection: Self
The self is the modern substitute for the soul.Collection: Self
I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.Collection: Self
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.Collection: Self
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mindCollection: Self
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.Collection: Self
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don'tCollection: Self
One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.Collection: Self
For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.Collection: Self
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.Collection: Self
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.Collection: Self
It takes a tremendous act of courage to admit to yourself that you are not defective in any way whatsoever.Collection: Self
Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.Collection: Self
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.Collection: Self
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.Collection: Self
We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.Collection: Self
...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecyCollection: Self