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“I sometimes stood for long moments listening to some bird telling me of the strangeness of myself”

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Book:In the Next Galaxy

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In the Next Galaxy

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Ruth Stone

Ruth Stone was a renowned American poet, born on June 8, 1915, and passed away on November 19, 2011. Her poetry is known for its simplicity, directness, and profound emotional expression. more

“In graduate school, he'd had a teacher who had told him that the best actors are the most boring people. A string sense of self was detrimental, because an actor had to let the self disappear; he had to let himself be subsumed by a character. "If you want to be a personality, be a pop star," his teacher had said.”

Self Acting Personality Pop Culture Actor Pop Star

Book:A Little Life

Source: A Little Life

“In all people I see myself, none more and not one a barleycorn less, And the good or bad I say of them.”

Self Good Bad

Book:Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

“I am given up by traitors; I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor, I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands carried me there.”

Self Traitor

Book:Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

“I ain't sure whether you're crazy or not," said he to the man in the lookin-glass. "I ain't never been sure.”

Self Crazy Identity Reflection

Book:A Journey in Search of Christmas

Source: A Journey in Search of Christmas

“Defaulting to the self in explanations of human behavior enables us to draw an abrupt stop in the chain of causality when trying to understand thoughts and actions.”

Self Free Will Determinism

Author:Bruce Hood

“Find someone who will teach you the variance of doubt, comfort and preference. And sometimes it's your skin and at times it's those who embrace it fearlessly.”

Love Self Relationships Attitude Beauty Hair Self Love Perception Conformity Someone

Author:Goitsemang Mvula

“All improvement is self-improvement.⁣⁣”

Self Self Help Self Improvement Self Awareness Self Confidence Self Realization Self Motivation

Author:Richie Norton

“You’re my best friend, You’re my love, You’re my life. I can’t wait to make you my wife! Love, Ryan”

Romance Fiction Novel

Book:Love Unrehearsed

Source: Love Unrehearsed

“Knowledge of ‘Thou’ means knowledge of ‘self’, and that knowledge will be donated by mankind. He will be ignorant about this. This is universalism and this is the symptom of Godhood.”

Self Knowledge Universalism

Author:Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

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