Self Quotes - Page 15

• Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Truth, Rip, Responsibility

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• There's no better makeup than self-confidence.

  Shakira

  Self Confidence, Makeup

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• And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities.

  Amy Bloom

  Letting Go, Memories, Grief

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• Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.

  John Sullivan Dwight

  Spheres, Fitting

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 669-70, True Rest, 1922.

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• True love is humble, thereby is it known;
  Girded for service, seeking not its own;
  Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

  Abraham Coles

  Love, Humble, Vaunt

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm a product of Wonder Woman comic books

  Nina Kuscsik

  Inspirational, Funny, Baby

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• Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor.

  Dirk Benedict

  People, Dancing, Fake

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• Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Taught, Doe

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• Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Believe, Self Confidence

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• most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

  Vera Brittain

  Self Righteous, Righteousness, Righteous

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• It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Said, Walks, Destructive

  "Ariel Rechtshaid: the producer behind Vampire Weekend, Haim and Sky Ferreira" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2013.

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• A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

  Christina Stead

  Believe, Son, Men

  'House of All Nations' (1938) 'Credo'

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• When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.

  Adyashanti

  Love, Hate, Views

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.144, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Whole, Universe

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• Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Genius, Intention, Inconsiderate

  Isaac Mayer Wise (1876). “The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures”

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• I have no home but me.

  Anne Truitt

  Home

  Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• One cannot really know an other without intimacy. Detached, objective observations alone leave a surface upon which it is too easy to project one's own image or fantasies. In intimacy, one respectfully interacts with the other, invites the penetration of the other, enters into a common effort, and then the strange and distinct contours of self and other become more apparent.

  Deena Metzger

  Effort, Strange, Common

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• ... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible.

  Mary Collyer

  Mean, Humanity, Care

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• money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth.

  Olivia Mellan

  Money, Emotional, Self Worth

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• In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Summer, Grief, Unique

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• Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Morning, Tone, Righteous

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• Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.

  Maria Bamford

  Voice, Challenges, Family And Friends

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• Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Our World, May

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.98, Baker Academic

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• The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Independence, God's Plan

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.111

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