It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
bell hooks
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It doesn't matter how many people adore you or how skinny, successful, smart, talented, funny, kind, or compassionate you are. None of it matters if you don't see your wonderful self.
Amanda de Cadenet
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I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.
Fred Savage
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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
Wavy Gravy
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I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.
Stacy Brown-Philpot
LearningFoodBrainSelfMoments
I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.
Emily Mortimer
WorkGoodLiveThinkSelfEnd
By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
TimeSelfMoreBirthOwnEssence
When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.
Wayne Dyer
PeaceSelfPresentAlwaysYour
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu
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I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.
Eliza Dushku
DayManStartWake UpSelfYou
Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
Priscilla Presley
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The scars on the face have always given me a sense that I'm not a very attractive person. I'm always unsure of myself, of my facial self.
Trudie Styler
MyselfMeFaceSelfPersonScars
The fact that I got famous and became a sex symbol around my normal, frumpy, love-handled self is so gratifying - and, dare I say, culturally gratifying as well.
David Harbour
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I just feel like you should be able to have a respectful work environment, because if you do, you'll be your best self.
Peggy Johnson
WorkBestSelfFeelEnvironmentYou
Yoga, the physical part, brings health in your body; meditation works on the mind, realizing your self. And they both can be practiced at the same time.
Tara Stiles
HealthTimeMindSelfBodySame
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison
PowerSelfTestStrangeAbility
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly
YourselfSelfBetterWriteThan
Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was just my own voice.
VoiceSelfCareerMy OwnMoreOwn
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
T. E. Lawrence
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When we don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend, we always say, 'Oh, I'm so lonely. I want a date,' or something like that. But I think the biggest love we're all searching for is the love for one's self.
RM
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You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.
Charlene Tilton
BusinessStrongSelfYouOutGoing
I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.
Paula Cole
SelfNameTryingFindWillInside
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