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• People need to be re - sometimes we need to reinvent ourselves and then get reacquainted with our better selves.

  Terry McMillan

  People, Needs, Sometimes

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• Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

  Thomas Keating

  Names, Childhood, Personal History

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• Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

  Gary Becker

  Assumption, Behavior, Driven

  Gary Stanley Becker, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (1996). “The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior: The Nobel Lecture”, p.5, Hoover Press

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• I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.

  Julian Assange

  Military, Imagination, Political

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• Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Real, Home, Soul

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• The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mind, Normal, Consciousness

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Silence, Bliss, Silence Is

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• I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Confused, Writing, Helping

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• Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.

  Rick Astley

  Thinking, Flesh, Aliens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Mother, Expectations, Culture

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• Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.

  Noah Feldman

  Memories, Practice, Holocaust

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• A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self.

  Chris Brown

  Men, Inward, Attire

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• We have both a weak self and a strong self; the two are completely different. If we allow our weak side to dominate, we will be defeated. The thought ,"I am still young and have a lot of time, so I can relax and take life easy" is a function of our own weakness.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Two, Relax

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• To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

  Oscar Wilde

  Harmony, Be Good

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to TV Guide. I knew how to make a presentation.

  Michael Ovitz

  Kids, Hands, Energy

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• At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Greatness, Challenges, Promise

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• You've got to maintain your level of self-esteem through everything. You are who you are, and nobody will ever be able to take that from you if you don't let them

  Donna Summer

  Self Esteem, Levels, Able

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• A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.

  Jakob Bohme

  Shepherds, Dominion, Spirit

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• In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Mean, Water

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• Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

  Aberjhani

  War, Men, World Love

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• Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

  Aberjhani

  Meaningful, Way, Made

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.

  Ellen Willis

  Spiritual, Couple, Emotional

  Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• We might neglect our future selves because of some failure of belief or imagination.

  Derek Parfit

  Imagination, Might, Belief

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• The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they all portray the break up of the self and, through the rearrangement and reassemble of the fragments, try to create new structures that possess wholeness, perfection, new meaning.

  Heinz Kohut

  Perfection, Trying, World

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• The joy of being a consumer is that it doesnt require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

  Matt Taibbi

  Responsibility, Joy, Next

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