"Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?"
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"They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts."
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"Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue."
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"Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones."
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"I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources."
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"I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands."
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"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."
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"I think your self emerges more clearly over time."
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"In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'"
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"Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others."
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"The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux."
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"Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God."
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"To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories."
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"Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character."
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"The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power."
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"Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience so that your own can be strengthened. Find another oak to weather the storm with you. Anyone who is in touch with his or her core self will always respond."
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"When will we learn, when will the people of the world get up and say, Enough is enough. God created us for fellowship. God created us so that we should form the human family, existing together because we were made for one another. We are not made for an exclusive self-sufficiency but for interdependence, and we break the law of our being at our peril."
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"By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union."
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"Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws."
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"Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry."
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