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“One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.”
“I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.”
“Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.”
“Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.”
“I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.”
“I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.”
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”
“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.”
“If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.”
“The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. ”
“Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.”
“I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because i...”
“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, f...”
“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ”
“Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.”
“Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.”
“I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace o...”
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”
“You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but...”
