"...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage."
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"Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing."
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"After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative."
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"Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned."
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"And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!"
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"Self-preservation is the first law of nature."
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"There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day."
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"Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same."
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"Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere."
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"For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination."
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"Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God."
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"Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it."
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"This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know."
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"The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed."
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"Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in."
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"The 'Inside-Out' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self, with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."
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"But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth"
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"Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied."
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"Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence."
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"The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility."
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