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“Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.”

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.”

Self Social Class Middle Color Green Satisfied Middle Class Hierarchy

Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

“Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.”

People Knows Believe Self Hard Government Community Decision Leader Hard Work Integrity Gains Careful Core Planning Partisanship Careful Planning

Author:Linda Lingle

“Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.”

Self Individual Virtue Importance Faults Exaggerated Self-importance

Book:Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America

Source: Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America

“Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.”

Thinking Self Mistake Audience Too Much Conscious Making Mistakes Self Conscious Thinking Too Much

Book:Inception: The Shooting Script

Source: Inception: The Shooting Script

“The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.”

Mind Self Earth Tears Universal Misery Chaos Drunk Ruins Self Respect Hats Owners Hopeless Touching Sober Drunkenness Plugs Muddy

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.”

Men Giving Self Lost Given Causes Parent Son Abandoned

Author:Guru Nanak

“I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.”

Self Done Belief Havens Negative Negative Thoughts Belief In Self

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth only if your self-worth rises to accept what can be yours.”

Ifs Knows Self Accepting Financial Self Worth Psychiatrist Planners Net Worth

Author:Suze Orman

“The boys are so well-rounded, they're so self-disciplined, there is so much camaraderie”

Wells Self Boys Camaraderie Well Rounded

Author:Kevin Pietersen

“What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.”

Self Force Process Common Miracle Sleeves Corrections Revision

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to the sea.”

Way Self Stars Principles Sea Built Rivers Organization Chaos Disorder Orbit

Author:Steven Pressfield

“I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.”

Self Painting Expression Self Expression

Author:Mark Rothko

“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.”

Long Self Memories Eternal Intellectual Mere Factors Chains Ancestor Ancestry Allegory Chained

Author:Erwin Schrodinger

“All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.”

Art Self Artist Crazy Taught Contemporary Schooled Contemporary Art Self Taught Proficiency

Author:Jerry Saltz

“You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.”

Self Protect

Author:Neil Strauss

“A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.”

World Persons Self Eye Certain Lovers Delusion Hostage Self Reliant

Author:Alexander Theroux

“This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.' It is frankly self-interest, self-preservation.”

People Self Interest Pay Attention Function Independent Pay Attention Approval Preservation Polls Self Interest Rating Self Preservation Approval Rating

Author:John Thune

“Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.”

People Giving Real Self Difficult Succeed Illusion Importance Humble Being Famous Real You Self-importance Stay Humble

Author:Lili Taylor

“We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.”

People Needs May Littles Self Use Seems Courses Difficult Wealth Poor Rich Share Materials Property Sufficient Apartment Poor People No Love Interdependence Material Things Self Sufficient

Author:Jean Vanier

“The biggest thing for me is the self-satisfaction of winning the race. I don't care about who gets the most attention. I've achieved something that's very special to me.”

Self Care Winning Race Attention Special Satisfaction Don't Care I Don't Care Self-satisfaction Special To Me Winning The Race

Author:Dan Wheldon

“I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.”

Writing Self Childhood Expression Great Love Self Expression Music Love New Experiences

Author:Edgar Winter

“All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.”

Needs Self Waiting Collaboration Gallery

Author:Jack White

“One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.”

People Made Self Done Fun Stuff Talking Accepting Example Conscious Disappear Who I Am Flaws Self Conscious How To Love Love Myself

Author:Ricky Williams

“Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.”

Self Fear Perfect Claims Deceived

Author:Bill W.

“Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.”

Self Selfishness Charm Absorption Self Absorption

Author:Loretta Young

“Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.”

Self Society Devil Righteousness Self Righteousness

Book:Why Don't We Learn from History?

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes. By legitimate I mean such as are not accompanied by self-condemnation.”

Mean Self Success Joy Pleasure Secret Series Triumph Transcendent Condemnation

Author:Sydney Thompson Dobell

“Truth is truth. If you hurt someone, you hurt self. If you help someone, you help self.”

Ifs Self Helping Truth Hurt Truth Is Hurts Someone

Book:Mutant Message Down Under

Source: Mutant Message Down Under

“It's important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought... Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts; it's about realizing what's true for you, through awareness and unconditional self-love. Once you see the truth, the thought lets go of you, not the other way around.”

Way Love Important Self Truth Realizing Awareness Self Love Letting Go Inquiry Unconditional Dropping Noticing Truth Love

Author:Byron Katie

“Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.”

Men Persons Self Lasts Acceptance Return Rewards Sake Profit Satisfaction Symbols Recognition Analysis Fuel Self Respect Rewards And Recognition

Book:Beyond Psychology

Source: Beyond Psychology

“For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.”

Children Stills Self Whole Seems Mother Individual Results Creative Evolution Birth Mass Conscious Consequence Blind Impulse Rebirth Self Conscious Creative Work

Book:journal

Source: journal

“It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.”

Important Self Matter Feelings Happens Values No Matter What Self Worth

Author:Vartan Gregorian

“A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.”

Mind Self Done Moments Awareness Criticism Self Awareness Unbearable Self Criticism

Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.”

People Self Government Accepting Determination Expected Self Determination Legitimacy Taiwan Affront

Author:Todd Akin

“By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.”

Self Government Political Citizens Essentials China Deny Regimes Contrast Representatives Dissent Freedom Of Religion Self-government

Author:Todd Akin

“Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.”

Men Humans Self Dies Ideals Lays Brave Slave Noble Mortals Live Life Human Life Self Respect Resolve Brave Man Enriching Disgraceful

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant?in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.”

Feels Self Facts Higher Disappear Abundance Higher Self

Author:Susan Jeffers

“The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.”

Humans Heart Self Spirit Song Speak Born Human Beings Alive Self Esteem Pride Self Love Happenings Strikes Esteem Uplifting Quests Entitled Human Spirit Greatest Love Popular Song

Author:Robert J. White

“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”

Ifs World Should Self Kids Mother Boys Aspect Ideals Decided Baseball Idealism Circus Self Centered Backyards Grandpa Ideal World

Author:Norman Rockwell

“The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.”

Feels Trying Humans Self Human Beings Steps Perfection

Book:Zen

Source: Zen

“We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.”

Self Creating Describing Repairing

Author:John Seely Brown

“It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.”

Ideas Self Strong Changed Expectations Prejudice No Idea Things To Do Right Thing Destructive Teens Self Destructive Self Indulgent

Author:Michael Medved

“Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.”

Self Stage Self Esteem Self Confidence Esteem

Author:Jake Miller

“If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.”

People Ifs Years Self Government Next Struggle Determination Appeals Liberation Rejects Self Determination Solidarity Urgent Next Year Homeland Self-government New Government

Author:Velupillai Prabhakaran

“Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.”

Should Doe Self Helping Sports Teach Self Esteem Discipline Esteem Winner Self Control Success In Life Self Discipline Trophies Discipline And Self Control

Author:Roy Baumeister

“Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.”

“The economy has settled into a sustainable, self-reinforcing growth path, .. All major categories of the economy have contributed to economic growth. Now that businesses have begun to add to payrolls, the current expansion is self-reinforcing. Only external shocks, such as terrorist attacks or a surge in oil prices, could derail the recovery.”

Self Growth Economy Path Economic Majors Add Currents Oil Terrorist Recovery Shock Categories Expansion Economic Growth Terrorist Attacks Payroll Oil Price

Author:Sung Won Sohn

“Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.”

Humans Self Issues Awareness Self Esteem Female Self Awareness Esteem

Author:Curtis Hanson

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