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Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.Collection: Self
Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.Collection: Self
What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.Collection: Self
Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.Collection: Self
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.Collection: Self
Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.Collection: Self
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.Collection: Self
Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.Collection: Self
When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.Collection: Self
The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.Collection: Self
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.Collection: Self
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.Collection: Self
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.Collection: Self
The world is governed by love,--self-love.Collection: Self
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different.Collection: Self
If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together.Collection: Self
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.Collection: Self
Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.Collection: Self
If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.Collection: Self
Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.Collection: Self
We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.Collection: Self
I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world.Collection: Self
When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.Collection: Self
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.Collection: Self
Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.Collection: Self
By the year 2020 the largest employer in the developed world will be the self.Collection: Self
I get self-conscious, but you have to just embrace it and go with it.Collection: Self
Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.Collection: Self
Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists.Collection: Self
Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.Collection: Self
In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.Collection: Self
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known.Collection: Self
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.Collection: Self
Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.Collection: Self
Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self; appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or successCollection: Self
Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.Collection: Self
The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.Collection: Self
The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to dieCollection: Self
I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.Collection: Self
Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.Collection: Self
They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts.Collection: Self
The lyric self is the self; the narrative self is not.Collection: Self
Our capacity for self-deception has no known limitsCollection: Self
Many people have criticized Islam for being just automatic, having no individuality, just surrendering your will to God, but we Muslims know very well that every moment of the day we have to practice the fact that to surrender one's self to God is an act of free will.Collection: Self
The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.Collection: Self
I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.Collection: Self
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.Collection: Self
Overacting is a self-indulgence, while underacting comes either through a lack of talent or a lack of courage.Collection: Self
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.Collection: Self