"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity."
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"The way you will experience and feel about yourself is not determined by how other people look and feel about you. The way that you will experience and feel about yourself is actually determined by how YOU look at and think about THEM. Whatever we think about others is really like sending a message about ourselves to our self."
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"Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human."
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"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
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"Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed."
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"If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean."
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"Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence."
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"The best motivation is self-motivation."
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"Every spoken word arouses our self-will."
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"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price."
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"The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur."
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"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others."
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"Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars."
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"Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure."
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"Humility is self-forgetfulness."
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"Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees."
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"Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go."
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"We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance."
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"There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else."
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"Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time."
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