"You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self."
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"To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling."
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"Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane."
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"I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history."
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"The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear."
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"Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal."
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"Self-respect knows no considerations."
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"Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind."
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"Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation."
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"If one is true to one's inner self, and follows its wisdom, who is without a teacher?"
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"The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love."
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"If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!"
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"The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'."
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"I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school."
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"Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments."
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"I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums... All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me... Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born."
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"Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals."
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"It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self."
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"It's odd to look out there and see a bunch of Mini-Mes," says Williams. "You're wondering what possessed them to do such a thing . . . It sort of does a reverse psychology on you. You'd think you'd be like `Hey, all these people want to look like me. I feel pretty cool.' But actually it makes you feel more self aware and I'm not really fond of that."
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"We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?"
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