"but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!"
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"Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again."
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"The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation."
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"We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress."
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"That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love."
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"I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life."
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"For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state."
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"Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too."
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"The sea Severs not only lands but also selves."
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"It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives."
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"It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound."
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"Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?"
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"I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!"
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"I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is."
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"Imagine the word CANCEL being a huge rubber stamp in your mind. Stamp CANCEL on any self-defeating image you place in your head, and begin to think in a self-enhancing way."
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"All forgiveness is self forgiveness."
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"here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility."
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"Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult.""
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"There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace."
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"You can set your self as much as be sick, or you'll be able to select to remain properly."
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