"It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully."
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"By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate."
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"You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away."
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"I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all."
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"…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone."
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"Self-love helps me make positive changes easily"
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"There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use."
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"Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage."
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"Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is."
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"God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out."
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"Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions."
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"The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction."
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"In my very own self, I am part of my family."
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"For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery"
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"There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see."
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"It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them."
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"Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface."
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"Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere."
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"It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self."
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"The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life."
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