Best unique & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.”

“I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.”

Way Believe Humans Self Happens I Believe Born Human Beings Results Environment Unique Core Unpredictable Heredity

Author:Gloria Steinem

“No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.”

Men Self Whole Unique Universal Independence Tendencies Manifestation Islands Dependent Entity Inward Wholeness Dependence Autonomy Assertive Antagonist Self Contained Janus

Author:Arthur Koestler

“The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.”

Self Form Unique Regard Portraits Portraiture Self Portrait Self Portrait Photography Objectifying

Author:Burton Silverman

“Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by keeping your mind inside your Heart, by trusting the inner guru and by recognizing each moment as perfect in itself and by simply being your Self. This is the true and natural responsibility or rather 'response-ability', the ability to respond effortlessly to the needs of the moment.”

Way Needs Mind Heart Self Moments Opportunity Natural Ability Perfect Responsibility Unique Response Contact Recognizing Guru Satsang

Author:Mooji

“What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician - the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency in the United States. No one knew who he was, he came out of nowhere, he had this incredible persona that floated him above the fray, destroyed Hillary, took over the Democratic Party and became president. This is truly unprecedented: A young unknown with no history, no paper trail, no well-known associates, self-created.”

“There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.”

“We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.”

Needs Self Cities Special Serious Unique Privacy Traffic Citizenship Imaginative Utopia Ecological Assessment Programmes Ingenious Special Relationship Plasticity Privacy And Freedom

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“I don't think there is a right approach to teaching self discovery. Every situation is unique.”

Thinking Self Situation Teaching Buddhism Approach Unique Discovery Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like you. Accept this reality about yourself- that you are a special, unique human being who has a place on this earth that no one else can fill. Acknowledge yourself as a glorious expression of your loving Creator. This healthy self-love will form the foundation of a joyful and satisfying life. Then, as you love and accept yourself, your inner light will shine outward to bless and heal your fellow human beings.”

“I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.”

Knows Humans Self Use Human Beings Roles Unique Models Expectations Copies Role Models Devoted Not Interested Uniqueness Fulfilling Being A Role Model Unique Self

Book:The Same River Twice

Source: The Same River Twice

“I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.”

“There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.”

Source: How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didnt fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.”

Way Children Self Kids Age Wanted Certain Fit Unique Bigger Defense Juniors Self Defense Junior High Mingling

Author:John Cena

“The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.”

Real Self Secret Week Unique Real Self Unique Self

Author:Bill Murray

“Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.”

“A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.”

“I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.”

Thinking Knows Self Universe Animal Consciousness Unique Mortality Self Consciousness

Author:Anne Rice

“Success isn't based on 'look what I can do!' but more on an inner sense of self and believing you have something to say in your own consistent way. And I think we all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.”

Thinking World Way Believe Looks I Can Self Fighting Can Do Style Taste Unique Consistent Conform Sense Of Self Unique Style

Author:Ralph Lauren

“You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there; you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you.”

People Way Should May Real Self Stories Records Unique Noble Flash Faithfulness Incidents Illumination Real Self Praiseworthy

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson. He will merely assume himself to be superior, and attempt to employ his recently-learned tactics against his own kind, whom he will then consider his inferiors. With each inferior man enjoying what he considers his unique role, the entire bunch will be reduced to a pack of strutting, foppish, self-centered monkeys gamboling about on an island of ignorance. There they will play their games under the supervision of their keeper, who was and always will be a superior man.”

Source: The Devil's Notebook

“I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination and the androgynous imagination of the Glam era. Because that meant everybody was implicated in this uncertain sense of sexual self, and it meant that everything was unstable. I guess I'm just not that interested in stable notions of identity, whatever they are.”

Giving Different Self Imagination Identity Ready Giving Up Unique Tests Notion Eras Stable Uncertain Not Ready Unstable Bisexual Glam Androgynous Gayness Ready To Give Up

Author:Todd Haynes

“We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.”

Humans Made Self Voice Unique Factors Human Voice

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.”

Self Unique Property Molecules

Author:Terence McKenna

“What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.”

Thinking Humans Kind Self Moments Universe Chance Evolution Ocean Unique Happenings Bigger Wave Riding Expansion Privileged Transforming Human Evolution Cork

Author:Terence McKenna

“Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents?”

Ifs Feels Self Shows Kids Today Parent Groups Rocks Healthy Taste Unique Stones Rose Rock N Roll Reunion

Author:Andrew Loog Oldham

“The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.”

Self Eternal Unique Essence Universal Individuality Symbols God Image

Book:Jung on Christianity

Source: Jung on Christianity

“Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life.”

Important Self Vision Roles Destiny Unique Missions Sense Of Self Roles In Life

Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.”

People Feels Self Character Shows Roles Unique Models Okay Blessed Role Models Unique Self

Author:Atticus Shaffer

“Be yourself. That's it. I got about 45 [billionaires] . They are all different, all unique, and they are all self-made.”

Made Different Self Unique Being Yourself Billionaire Self Made

Author:Tony Robbins

“Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music.”

Needs Giving Mean Self Shows Grows Growing Up Unique Wake Up Symphony Self Giving Unique Gifts Unique Self

Author:Marc Gafni

“I am inspiring and activating others to wake up to their unique selves to anchor the next stage of our unfoldment.”

Self Next Stage Unique Wake Up Anchors Unique Self

Author:Michael Beckwith

“There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.”

Self Beautiful Individual My Own Powerful Unique Gorgeous Unique Self

Author:Alicia Keys

“Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.”

Thinking World Real Self Dream Moving Levels Fantasy Forever Unique Profound Ancient Mythology Storytelling Real World Real Self Always And Forever

Author:Lloyd Alexander

“We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills they attain through their own concentration and rigor, and the unique phase in their lives during which they may explore boys and eroticism at their own pace - these are magical. And they constitute the entrance point to a life cycle of a sexuality that should be held sacred.”

Knows Should May Self Body Girl Boys Skills Unique Sacred Sexuality Concentration Cycles Pace Phases Entrances Rigor Self Contained

Author:Naomi Wolf

“The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.”

“Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.”

Ifs Should Self Seems Natural Unique Extraordinary Oneself Vain Obsessed Self Obsessed

Book:The Woman Destroyed

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”

Source: Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

“The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.”

Source: Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great

“Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.”

Self Matter Desire Artist Awareness Unique Opposites Self Awareness Shrinks Unique Gifts

Author:James Broughton

“The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.”

Two Self Unique Deception Self Deception

Author:David Byrne

“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".”

Way Inspirational Self Unique Being Yourself Be Kind Uniqueness True Self Here And Now Seagull Jonathan Livingston Seagull Livingston Seagull Jonathan Seagull

Book:Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition

“Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.”

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

“The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism.”

World Self Feelings Suffering Doubt Ego Unique Cat Bases Fundamentals University Disappear Intense

Author:Milan Kundera

“There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.”

“To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.”

Thinking Self Ability Levels Talent Acceptance Unique Increase Self Acceptance Think Of You Talents And Abilities Unique Talents

Author:Brian Tracy

“I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job. You're beautiful and worthy and totally unique. People insult each other based on their own insecurities - even though it may feel personal, it really never is. Really. Seriously.”

“Meditation is to attain to a no-mindness, to a state of no-thought. In that opening of no-thought, in that kind of space, suddenly you become pure, innocent, uncorrupted. You have never been like that before nobody has ever been like that before nobody is going to be like that again. Unique. And to know that is to realize one's self. To know that is to know all. If you have not known that, whatsoever else you know is just rubbish, garbage.”

Ifs Knows Kind Self States Realizing Space Known Meditation Pure Unique Innocent Opening Garbage Rubbish

Author:Rajneesh

“That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share our common self, our superficial self. Yet what is most unique about us is what has the greatest potential for bonding us. When we share our uniqueness, we discover the commonality in greatness that defines everyone on the planet.”

Thinking Self States Common Relationship Share Greatness Planets Normal Unique Ordinary Uniqueness Superficial Discourse Bonding Commonality

Author:Robert E. Quinn

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