"Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences."
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"I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control."
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"A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good."
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"The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self."
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"Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain."
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"Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not."
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"A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation."
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"Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment."
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"Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty."
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"We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves."
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"Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music."
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"Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth."
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"The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent."
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"Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course."
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"Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes."
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"There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness."
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"The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me."
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"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."
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"The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart."
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"I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it’s that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it’s going to work. It’s astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks."
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