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title: "12 Away Self Quotes by 12 authors"
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> [Can't get away from your own self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holly-black/can-t-get-away-from-your-own-self/)

[Holly Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/holly-black/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d7/holly-black-329_away_can-t-get-away-from-your-own-self-273092_2730924.png)

> [“Nobody can take away your self-respect except you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-sonnenberg/nobody-can-take-away-your-self-respect-except-you/)

[Frank Sonnenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-sonnenberg/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/030/frank-sonnenberg-2672_away_nobody-can-take-away-your-self-respect-e_2362156.jpg)

> [“Even now he could feel the start of the long journey, the leave taking, the going away from the self he had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/even-now-he-could-feel-the-start-of-the-long-journey-the-leave-taking/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/548/ray-bradbury-75_inspirational_even-now-he-could-feel-the-start-of-the_2204618.jpg)

> [Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-sri-ravi-shankar/have-respect-for-yourself-and-no-one-can-take-away-your-self-respect/)

[Sri Sri Ravi Shankar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-sri-ravi-shankar/)

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> [They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/they-cannot-take-away-our-self-respect-if-we-do-not-give-it-to-them/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [I never feel like I'm looking to get away from my own self. Not as much as I'm trying to get inside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-wood/i-never-feel-like-i-m-looking-to-get-away-from-my-own-self-not-as/)

[Chris Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-wood/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/336/chris-wood-25957_feel_i-never-feel-like-i-m-looking-to-get-awa_2827907.jpg)

> [Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-whichcote/take-away-the-self-conceited-and-there-will-be-elbowroom-in-the-world/)

[Benjamin Whichcote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-whichcote/)

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> [“Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/presume-not-that-i-am-the-thing-i-was-for-god-doth-know-so-shall-the/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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> [To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-horton-cooley/to-get-away-from-one-s-working-environment-is-in-a-sense-to-get-away/)

[Charles Horton Cooley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-horton-cooley/)

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> [“True humility comes when, in the, light of God, we have seen ourselves to be nothing, have consented to part with and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-murray/true-humility-comes-when-in-the-light-of-god-we-have-seen-ourselves/)

[Andrew Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-murray/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56b/andrew-murray-1530_humility_true-humility-comes-when-in-the-light-of_2744773.png)

> [“If anything, other than our own ‘Real Self’, remains in our memory, it is all vishaya \[subjects of pleasures that take one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/if-anything-other-than-our-own-real-self-remains-in-our-memory-it-is/)

[Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9c/dada-bhagwan-31_celibacy_if-anything-other-than-our-own-real-self_863343.jpg)

> [“The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-urs-von-balthasar/the-flight-away-from-self-to-god-is-not-a-forgetting-self-in-the/)

[Hans Urs von Balthasar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-urs-von-balthasar/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff3/hans-urs-von-balthasar-9350_experience_the-flight-away-from-self-to-god-is-not_1095031.jpg)

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