"Fashion is self confident and fearless."
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"You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self."
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"There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination."
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"The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy."
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"Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality."
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"Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours."
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"When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious."
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"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy."
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"Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power."
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"If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate...not following the thought stream...not pursuing the senses, no imagination...s uch an intense Self-focusing comes without any effort...then, by itself...out of nowhere, wisdom and insights come."
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"A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed."
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"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy."
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"Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self."
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"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self."
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"The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self."
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"All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones."
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"Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength."
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"To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting."
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"For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch."
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"Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others."
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