"It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of."
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"It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born. He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will kill a person who does not want to die."
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"Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans - though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground."
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"The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don't expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don't."
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"Self-pity is the simplest luxury."
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"You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say."
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"I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera."
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"How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you."
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"The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent."
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"To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life."
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"Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies."
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"Be proactive. Ask yourself, "Are my actions based on self-chosen values or on my moods, feelings and circumstances?""
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"The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are."
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"The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves)."
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"Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied."
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"The more trust you develop in your body, the more trust you develop in your deeper self."
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"Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about."
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"Self-expression without craft is for toddlers."
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"As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly."
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"Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness."
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