Sense Of Self Quotes

• When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

  Rumi

  Self, Roots, Soul

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• In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

  Albert Bandura

  Fear, Struggle, Self

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• When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Self, Names, Meditation

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.3, New World Library

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• Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

  Erich Fromm

  Creativity, Acceptance, Self

  "Creative Expression: Creativity and Self Exploration". Book by Jennifer Freed, p. 39, 2007.

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• As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Night

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2016). “MLK on "The Other America" and "Black Power"”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

  Sally Field

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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• A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

  Kimberly Elise

  Happy Life, Self, Helping

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• There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for survival or for satisfaction, and travel far. Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Self, Practice, People

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.54, Canongate Books

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• I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

  Angelina Jolie

  Change, Self, World

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• If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

  Jennifer James

  Change, Self Worth, Two

  Jennifer James (2008). “Thinking in the Future Tense”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.

  Angelina Jolie

  Women, Thinking, Self

  "Angelina Holds Nothing Back". Interview with Jennifer Kasle Furmaniak, www.cosmopolitan.com. August 16, 2003.

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• Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.

  Aloe Blacc

  Self, People, Identity

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.

  Stephen Covey

  Unique, Destiny, Self

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Success isn't based on 'look what I can do!' but more on an inner sense of self and believing you have something to say in your own consistent way. And I think we all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

  Ralph Lauren

  Believe, Fighting, Unique

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• Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.

  Sean O'Casey

  Humor, Vanity, Self

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• Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are born with a sense of self and a sense of wanting self to feel good and the mechanisms to bring it about.

  Esther Hicks

  Knowledge, Self, Feel Good

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• If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of self bound up with their genders, so to get rid of gender would be to shatter their self-hood.

  Judith Butler

  Strong, Self, People

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks

  Erving Goffman

  Identity, Cracks, World

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• When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him, my capacity for joy increases. The more I "have" Jesus, the deeper my enjoyment of him. He increases my desire for those things that are good, adds value to that which is benign, and diminishes the strength of the negative (the evil) that threatens to throttle me. My dependence on material values and experiences as the means by which I define or please myself decreases.

  Gregory S. Paul

  Jesus, Mean, Self

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• The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Baby, Self, Needs

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• We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?

  Jack Kornfield

  Struggle, Heart, Self

  Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.162, Random House

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• Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Selfish, Ambition, Purpose

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.27, Multnomah

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• Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

  Aberjhani

  Self, Psychics, Awareness

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• A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.

  John Gray

  Relationship, Money, Men

  John Gray (2011). “Truly Mars and Venus: The Illustrated Essential Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

  Anne Lamott

  Self, Parent, Identity

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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