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“Listen, child," Maame said. "Every story you believe, that you incorporate within the self, decides who you are. And the greatest weapon against freedom is to believe stories that plant a seed in your heart yet have no place growing there.”

Book:Lost Ark Dreaming

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“The individual lives unperturbed, sufficient unto himself, but then the paradox of self-love is awakened through the love of another, the one desired. (Self-love lies at the foundation of, or goes to the foundation of, all love, which is why, if we would like to think of a religion of love, it would be just as epigrammatic as true that it would have to assume a condition and accept it as given: that a person loves himself in order to be able to demand that he love the neighbour as himself.) The lover is changed by this paradox of love, so that he hardly recognizes himself (this is witnessed to by poets, who are love’s spokesmen, as well as by lovers themselves, in that they allow poets to take only the floor from them, not their passion) So this imperceptibly sensed paradox of the understanding affects a person and his self-knowledge, so he who believed he knew himself is no longer certain whether he is a stranger creature than Typhon, or whether there is not in his being a milder and more divine part”

Love Self Understanding Self Love

Book:Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus

Source: Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus

“This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else’s.”

Self Experience Self Realization Potential Uniqueness Gifts

Author:Joseph Campbell

“Not being able to be our true self or live authentically ultimately puts us under pressure. Even if you can endure it for a while, there will always be a limit, and eventually, it will become unbearable.”

Self Self Love Self Awareness Authenticity Self Respect Authentic Self Acceptance Of Oneself Social Pressure Social Acceptance Social Stigma

Author:Noeul Nuttarat Tangwai

“A sense of his own identity came upon him with a sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.”

Self Power Identity

Author:John Williams (Stoner)

“It’s always bothered me how far people will go just to avoid silence. Gossip, drama, empty noise. Chasing status, praise—even worship. All to drown out the quiet. But what few realize is that the silence within us screams the loudest whenever we begin to live a life totally untrue to ourselves. Because in a world built on illusions, silence is the only thing that isn’t a lie.”

Self Philosophy Metaphysics

Author:Jason Daniel Chaplin

“We can know nothing about what is outside us, if we overlook ourselves,' he thinks now, 'the universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.”

Self Universe Knowledge

Book:Mr Palomar

Source: Mr Palomar

“In a loud world, we begin to lose our sense of self, not because it's missing, but because we can no longer hear it.”

Self Loud

Author:Egbearor Favour

“Most people spend their lives surrounded by others, yet never truly know themselves.”

Self

Author:Egbearor Favour

“Your fingerprint is proof that heaven never duplicated greatness—so why live like you're a copy when God called you a concept?”

Self Self Esteem Self Love Self Improvement Self Awareness Self Worth

Author:Dr. Angela L. Hood

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