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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you're satisfied one moment - saying yes, it's a good meal, makes me happy - well, that's not going to necessarily be true the next hour. Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Time is your soul mate. Children are happy. But they haven't really experienced ups and downs yet. I'm not exactly sure what happiness even means. I don't know if I personally could define it."

Mean Children Self
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Aristotle Philosopher
Self

"Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish."

Character Self Support
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Ramana Maharshi Spiritual Teacher
Self

"If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second."

Self Doe Ego
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Ramana Maharshi Spiritual Teacher
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"You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of the not-Self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure awareness alone remains, and that is the Self."

Self Names Giving Up
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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
Self

"Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself."

Men Two Self
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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men."

Men Self Lying
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Self

"Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."

Self Proud Danger
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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
Self

"You practice forgiveness for two reasons: to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility with them and to free yourself from the self-defeating energy of resentment. Send love in some form to those you feel have wronged you and notice how much better you feel."

Two Self Practice
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Self

"If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization."

Self Civilization Ego
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Robert Adams Photographer
Self

"Happiness is your True Nature. Within you is Unimaginable Beauty. Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment. Through the clear Realization of the Truth, your Real Self will come shining through."

Real Self Shining
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Robert K. Merton Sociologist
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"The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true. The specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning."

Self Science Errors
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Gabrielle Bernstein Author, Speaker
Self

"Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself - you're the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can."

Self Nice Acceptance
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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
Self

"He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision."

Self Decision Apes
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Judah Smith Pastor
Self

"Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him for yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out."

People Self Jesus
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Jean Piaget Psychologist, Philosopher
Self

"The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it."

Children Self Sacrifice
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