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“For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.”

Years Self Felt Loses Half Issues Worst Hair Eating Weight Destructive Anorexia Self Destructive

Author:Renee Olstead

“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.”

World Mind Stills Self Happiness Desire Loses Buddhism Involved Stillness Centering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.”

Inspirational Needs Self Energy Loses Buddhism Type Discovery Holes Self Discovery Concentration Basics Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.”

Men Self Helping Body Mother Order Passion Loses Prayer Love Is Self Love Pure Driving God Love Rejects Attachment Irritation Rancor

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.”

Thinking Mind Self Loses Essence Regard Continuity Think Of You

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.”

Thinking Love Mind Wells Self Loses Love Is Destruction Ancient Rational Insanity Greek Delusion Self Destruction Losing Yourself Ancient Greek

Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room

“There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.”

“The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.”

Self Whole Individual Loses Forget Sacrifice Society Produce Losing Impulse Mask Collectives Willingness Forget It Readiness Unwanted Compact Revulsion Slough

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.”

Real Self Understanding Loses Protect Criticism Lonely Crowds Protection Rejection Family And Friends Misunderstood Steep Real Self Camouflage

Author:Sidney Jourard

“To become conscious of God, to become God's consciousness, to become God, to be God and to be beyond God, God being beyond God, God having an existence separate from the creation, to be that, to merge with that, to lose one's self and find one's self endlessly again and again in that is self-realization.”

Self God Loses Existence Consciousness Creation Conscious Self Realization Realization Again And Again

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.”

People Way Self Loses Wealth Successful Journey Share Humility Keys Embrace Fruit Humble Credit Focused Hungry Arrogance Successful People Traps Key To Success Halt My Journey

Author:Rick Pitino

“If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.”

Ifs Self Loses Defeat Definitions Acquire Shed Defeated Beaten Losing Yourself Improving Yourself

Book:The Tao of Wu

Source: The Tao of Wu

“Your hands hold roses always in a way that says They are not only yours; the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.”

Way Kind Self Moments Hands Beautiful Wish Loses Wonder Findings Rose

Book:Poems of Richard Wilbur

Source: Poems of Richard Wilbur

“There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.”

Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

“Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”

“In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of God, everyone suddenly turned into a saviour who wanted either to annihilate the obsolete world order or to establish a utopia. Naturally, there were writers among those who went mad. The fact that they had knowledge did not exempt intellectuals: there is madness everywhere. When one loses control over one's self, the result is madness.”

Ifs World Self Facts Wanted Order Loses Results Century Intellectual Madness Mad Elites Utopia Saviour Obsolete World Order

Author:Gao Xingjian

“Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the Almighty. Most people seem willing to accept Darwinism as long as they don't have to believe in nothing but Darwinism. Thus, the strident tub-thumping for absolute atheism by evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins, whom the new issue of Discover Magazine rightly criticizes as "Darwin's Rottweiler," is self-defeating.”

People Believe Long Self Seems Force Loses Accepting Issues Atheism Willing Absolutes Magazines Criticize Almighty Supporter Darwinism Biologist Tubs Rottweilers

Author:Steve Sailer

“How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I had come from nowhere and had no history, so I fully accepted my circumstances-even the initial murk and mess of the Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View-with equanimity.”

Source: Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

“The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.”

World Self Care Loses Compassion Teaching Essence Importance Welfare Self-importance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship with anyone. He could charm or he could bully; he could give or he could take; he was glad to see his guests arrive and pleased to see them go. Although many people genuinely loved him, he was incapable of believing that this was either possible or true. No wonder he was so restless, so impatient, so vindictive, so quick to lose his temper, so eager to stir things up.”

“If a man surrenders all power of self-determination in regard to the profits, management or ownership of the place where he works, he not only loses that special prerogative which marks him off from a cow in a pasture, but what is worse, he loses all capacity for determining any work. This is the beginning of a slavery which sometimes goes by the name of security.”

“I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.”

“A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.”

People Self Energy Loses Teacher Involved Losing Discovery Self Discovery Mysticism Entity Abusive Losing Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains.”

Men Needs Self Desire Values Hate Loses Break Atheism Wall Promise Thee Curse Self Respect Suspects Curtains Thyself Profitable Hypocrite

Book:沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

Source: 沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

“However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones”

Self Sound Voice Loses Love Is Virtue Self Love Ears Harmony Tone Fancy Delusion Attempting Sweetest Tedious Orators Tiresome

Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University

Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University

“In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.”

Thinking Heart Long Important Self Loses Humility Imaginary Peace Of Heart

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.”

Self Care Loses Seeing Self Control I Care Objections

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.”

Giving Self Fighting Loses Treats Self Respect Desks Pauses Apathetic

Book:Locked rooms and open doors

Source: Locked rooms and open doors

“Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.”

Ifs Feels Wells Doe Self Individual Loses Shadow Areas Weight Sight Substance Repression Eclipse Inhibitions

Book:Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS

Source: Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS

“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.”

Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

“Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.”

Self Action Loses Demand Anger Self Control

Book:Zen in the Martial Arts

Source: Zen in the Martial Arts

“Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.”

Should Ends Self Dies Causes Loses Vision Should Have Losing Yourself Should Have Listened

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin”

Heart Persons Self Life Is Loses Sin Focus Rights Perception Fundamentals Denial Sovereignty Elevation Brazen Sovereignty Of God

Author:D. A. Carson

“What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.”

People Way Self Fighting Loses Deals Grief I Have Learned Dealing With Death

Author:Carrie Jones

“The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.”

Humans Self Loses Knowledge Worst Conditions Behavior Self Knowledge

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.”

Mean Self Born Loses Privilege Nationalism Evident Nationality

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work. Many people are aware of these principles, but very few can put them into practice. Every day I hear someone say, 'I'm to fat. I need to lose twenty-five pounds, but I can't. I never seem to improve.' I'd hate myself if I had that kind of attitude, if I were that weak. I can lose ten to forty pounds rapidly, easily, painlessly, by simply setting my mind to it.”

Source: Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder

“Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.”

Self Loses Pleasure Senses Treasure

Author:Swami Parthasarathy

“He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.”

Mean Self Loses Opinion Alive Position Fame Praise Ill Illness Vanity Vain Sufficient Endeavor Self Sufficient

Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

“The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.”

Mean Doe Self Facts Universe Loses Consciousness Birth Ocean Tranquility Sense Of Self

Author:Sam Harris

“Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.”

Knows Self Loses Deny Imperfection Manhood Self Reliance Reliance True Man

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to fly off in a temper. The man who would control others must be able to control himself. There is something admirable, something inspiring, something soul-stirring about a man who displays coolness and courage under extremely trying circumstances. A good temper is not only a business asset. It is the secret of health. The longer you live, the more you will learn that a disordered temper breeds a disordered body.”

Men Trying Doe Soul Self Body Able Jobs Loses Secret He Man Circumstances Bigger Refuse Assets Temper Display Admirable Stirring Coolness

Author:B. C. Forbes

“The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.”

Source: Authentic Happiness

“Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.”

World Mind Self Running Past Time Loses Knowing Objects Circumstances Originals Slave Track Objectives Not Knowing Threatening Disagreeable True Or False

Book:Manual of Zen Buddhism

Source: Manual of Zen Buddhism

“All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.”

Ifs Men Giving Self Life Is Loses Honor Sells Self Respect Your Honor

Author:Lemmy Kilmister

“Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.”

Self Lost Interest Loses Virtue Sea Rivers Self Interest

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Self-immolation as a way to protest against the injustices or as a way to fight for freedom cannot be accepted! All the fights must be done in the dimension of existence! Your body is your road to everywhere; if you destroy it, you lose all the roads! Stay firm and fight alive; no cause is more valuable than a man's life! Keep your body out of the fire! Don't ever praise the self-immolations; condemn them! Suicide is a defeat! Power is to fight, to fight peacefully, and not to die in agony!”

“A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.”

People Thinking Self Helping Loses Best Self Best Relationship

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.”

Source: The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four

“When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.”

World Humans Stills Self Literature Loses Human Beings Awareness Self Awareness Notion Gender Disappear Abyss Places To Go

Author:Andrew Cohen