"You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday."
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"Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform."
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"The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul."
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"The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health."
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"Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image."
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"The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self."
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"You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you."
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"Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine."
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"Everything that happens to you is self-created. Whenever you're responding to any situation, whether it's a sip of coffee, or a traffic jam, or a love note, or criticism from a boss, or rainy weather, you're in fact responding to a signal that you generated within yourself."
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"Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended."
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"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices."
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"There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness."
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"We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual."
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"The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love."
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"It's healthy to periodically self examine your life, your goals, your relationships, and ask yourself honestly, am I happy? Am I on the right track?"
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"One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals."
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"I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality."
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"There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life."
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"If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before."
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"Being self-supporting is important to me."
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