Self Quotes - Page 18

• The liberating encounter with God/ess is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people, with nature.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  God, Healing, People

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• If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

  Melina Kanakaredes

  Persons, Left, Ifs

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• There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Three, Firsts, Revelations

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• I think most people act in their self-interest.

  Aubrey McClendon

  Thinking, People, Interest

  "Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon: 'I Think We've Won' Fracking Debate" by Rob Wile, www.businessinsider.com. April 29, 2012.

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• Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, People, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.13, New World Library

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• As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Doubt, Trials, Permanent

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• I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Powerful, Philosophy, Writing

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• I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to try to make sense of it all. Anni Daulter has created what should be the new standard for today's mom: birth journals, labor workbooks, pregnancy memoirs, and holistic wisdom. It is gentle and enlightening, and lays the foundation for what we know helps women have the labor and birth they want and deserve: support, self-knowledge, and empowerment.

  Mayim Bialik

  Mom, Pregnancy, Book

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• You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Risk, Degrees, Protect

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• Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.

  Walt Disney

  Teamwork, Mean, Civilization

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• Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Keys, Survival

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• With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Powerful, Book, Profound

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• Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Acceptance, Forgiving, Love Grows

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• In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Abuse, Littles, Limits

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• The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Interesting, Building

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• It was easy to blame other people for treating me in ways I didn't like, but now I was seeing that I was the one at fault. The only way you can be mistreated is by allowing yourself to be mistreated, and that was something I did over and over again. Somehow, I needed to find that glimmer of self-respect, buried deep inside, that would allow me to say: I am never going to let that happen to me again. I needed to learn how to stand up for myself in a different way, but I didn't know how.

  Jennifer Lopez

  People, Way, Faults

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• I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

  Misha Collins

  Memories, Trying, Fading

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• I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...

  Misha Collins

  Fire, People, Giving

  "Misha Collins Then and Now - Our Reciprocal Interviews with Castiel's Alter Ego". Interview with Lynn Zubernis, fangasmthebook.wordpress.com. March 12, 2012.

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• The other day, I saw a blog post where a woman wrote about why she was unfollowing me and that made me feel incredibly self-conscious and embarrassed about my tweets. I also feel more exposed now that I've become a more visible writer but then I try to get over all that and just use Twitter the way I want.

  Roxane Gay

  Trying, Use, Want

  "What Would Twitter Do?" with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I enjoy twitter accounts that are meticulously edited just as much as I enjoy twitter accounts that aren't edited at all, but it can feel kind of disappointing to me when I see that someone is editing their tweets out of self-consciousness.

  Mira Gonzalez

  Editing, Kind, Consciousness

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I love Twitter. It doesn't keep me from writing and I think it's a really convenient scapegoat when the truth is that the real issue is self-control. I am totally fine admitting i have none. I'm not going to blame Twitter for affecting my writing. And also, Twitter doesn't affect my writing.

  Roxane Gay

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014.

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• I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Who I Am, Worry

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there.

  Jerry Stahl

  Party, Remember, Hell

  "Go Forth". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language. The way you speak changes you, because when you are speaking, you are representing yourself in a certain way.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Way, Firsts, Language

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Character, Interesting, Historical

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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