"With self-discipline most anything is possible."
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"Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write."
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"Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone."
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"Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought."
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"The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self."
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"Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct."
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"Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten."
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"He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."
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"In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether it is like the faces of healthy people, and especially whether it is like its usual self. Such likeness will be the best sign, and the greatest unlikeness will be the most dangerous sign. The latter will be as follows. Nose sharp, eyes hollow, temples sunken, ears cold and contracted with their lobes turned outwards, the skin about the face hard and tense and parched, the colour of the face as a whole being yellow or black."
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"If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked."
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"The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self."
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"Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew."
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"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."
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"The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God."
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"Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person – the personal – citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self."
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"Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control."
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"Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities."
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"Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess."
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"Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression."
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"The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences."
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