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• He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
• He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small… — Mencius
• The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
• In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and… — Philippe Halsman
• As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments… — John Updike
• To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and… — Anthony Giddens
• No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of… — Flannery O'Connor
• Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of… — Mahatma Gandhi

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