Self Quotes

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Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimisitc about the potential for technology to make the world a better place. Think about how many… — Larry Page
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to… — Nicholas Delbanco
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This… — Adi Shankara
The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings. — Hakuin Ekaku
Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you. — Swami Muktananda
The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've… — Jim Rohn
Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense. — Khalil Gibran
I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo.… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Hatred is self-punishment. — Hosea Ballou
Revolution begins with the self, in the self. — Toni Cade Bambara
We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have… — Dalai Lama
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. — Clarence Day
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to… — Jules Feiffer
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are… — Langston Hughes
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. — Elbert Hubbard
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. — Jose Marti
The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job. — Alice Walker
It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination,… — Colman McCarthy
Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around… — Lisa Bonet

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