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Quotes About Self (page 11)

I feel again the hunger to let go of my striving and find the ability to become content and still, intentionally "superfluous," as writer Helen M. Luke puts it. I want a refuge from my old conquering self. Sue Monk Kidd
he'd know about the role of mirror neurons in the brain, special cells in the premotor cortex that fire right before a person reaches for a rock, steps forward, turns away, begins to smile. Amazingly, the same neurons fire whether we do something or watch someone else do the same thing, and both summon similar feelings. Learning form our own mishaps isn't as safe as learning from someone else's, which helps us decipher the world of intentions, making our social whirl possible. The brain... Diane Ackerman
Walter Lippmann quote: "there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal..."
there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human. Walter Lippmann
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry..."
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Jean-Paul Sartre
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errorsand shortcomings are for a while lost sight ofin the amiable self assertion of youth. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Was joy created always to live under that threat? Always defenseless to those who would rather be miserable than have their self will be crossed? Can you really have thought that love and joy would always be at the mercy of frowns and sighs? The demand of the loveless; that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe; that til they consent to be happy-on their own terms- no one else shall taste joy; that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to VETO HEAVEN? C. S. Lewis
Aristotle quote: "Happiness belongs to the self sufficient."
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient. Aristotle
D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning. Alexander Dumas
John Gresham Machen quote: "It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for..."
It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it. John Gresham Machen
-We live in Rome, he says, turning his face to the room again,-Caligula's Rome, with a new circus of vulgar bestialized suffering in the newspapers every morning. The masses, the fetid masses, he says, bringing all his weight to his feet.-How can they even suspect a self who can do more, when they live under absolutely no obligation. There are so few beautiful things in the world... William Gaddis
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have... Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cyril Connolly quote: "It is better to write for yourself and have no audience, than..."
It is better to write for yourself and have no audience, than to write for an audience and have no self. Cyril Connolly
why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than as your own natural self Charles Dickens
I will keep an eye on Diatribe, with her big talk and heroic gestures, to see with what force she will bring down my Achilles, when hitherto she has never managed to hit a common soldier, not even a Thersites, but she has shot her miserable self to pieces with her own weapons. Martin Luther
I feel that it is possible that I might never have existed, for my self consists in thought; therefore I who think would never have been if my mother had been killed before I had come to life; therefore I am not a necessary being. I am not eternal or infinite eithe? Blaise Pascal

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