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It's far harder to love God and do his will than it is to be self absorbed and love my own will.
Andy Mineo
Love
God
Will
Own
My Own
Self
Self-Absorbed
Absorb
His
Than
To Love
Far
Harder
I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
Angelina Jolie
People
World
Dark
Living
Detach
Having
Self
Almost
Know
Another
Go
Jump
Get
Just
Really
Who
Film
Things
To me, fashion is ceaselessly fascinating because it is an expression of self.
Anna Wintour
Fashion
Me
Self
Because
Fascinating
Expression
Until I was twenty-eight, I had a kind of buried self who didn't know she could do anything but make white sauce and diaper babies. I didn't know I had any creative depths.
Anne Sexton
Creative
White
Babies
Kind
Could
Self
Had
Know
Until
She
Make
Diaper
Any
Buried
Anything
Depths
Who
Sauce
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
Anne Tyler
Me
Writing
Speak
Down
Seems
More
Write
Self
Had
Since
Did
May
Children
While
Richer
Grown
Deeper
The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
Annie Dillard
World
Bears
Self
He
Most
Himself
Contents
Does
Fit
Fits
Certainly
Inherited
Paint
Who
Painter
Paints
Servant
Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsession to get the most from this short life.
Anthony Joshua
Life
Journey
Embodiment
Self
Obsession
Beyond
Most
Boxing
Am
Get
Short
Short Life
Who
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.
Antonio Damasio
Simple
Mind
Pay
Minds
Those
Self
Abstraction
Attention
Operate
Principles
Because
Without
Lot
Brains
Same
Precisely
Who
Creatures
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.
Antonio Damasio
Culture
Others
Took
About
Individual
Self
Autobiographical
Just
Interactions
Place
Which
Necessity
If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'
Antony Sher
You
Will
Become
Believe
Teenage
Say
Something
Could
Write
Self
Like
Gonna
If I Could
Letter
People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'
Arlie Russell Hochschild
People
Church
Recycling
Sense
Group
Market
Our
Neighborhood
Something
Kitchen
Through
Self
Part
Volunteer
Feel
Come
Calls
Self-Interest
Soup
Than
Get
Different
Center
Us
Who
Larger
Belonging
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
Arthur Erickson
Creative
Other
Our
Something
Mystery
Self
Takes
Over
Than
Act
Creative Act
Conscious
That's really truly what my message is - finding self love within yourself and not comparing yourself to others - because there's no such thing as perfection, because perfection doesn't exist.
Ashley Graham
Love
Yourself
Others
Finding
Self
Perfection
Message
Because
Within
Self-Love
Exist
Truly
Really
Comparing
Thing
I'm delighted to be the face of the Garnier No Streak Bronzer Self Tan Range.
Ashley Roberts
Face
Range
Delighted
Self
Tan
Streak
Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'
Ashwin Sanghi
Good
Me
Inspire
Be True
Own
Believe
Admiration
Only
Writer
Self
Good Writer
True
Towards
Readers
Making
Formula
Thine
I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
August Wilson
Work
Myself
People
Think
Say
Write
Self
Picasso
He
Himself
Audience
Always
Same
Artist
Which
Painted
Satisfy
There's a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.
Autre Ne Veut
Culture
Anxiety
Sense
Constant
Having
Self
Within
Existing
Innate
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
Ayad Akhtar
Experience
World
Old
Difficult
Defined
Ways
Immigrant
Paradigm
Rupture
See
Self
New
Renewal
American
New World
Being
American Experience
Old Ways
Old World
Bright
I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
B.o.B
Thinking
Way
About
Self
Got
Transcendental
Things
If I were to talk to my younger self, I would say, 'Girl, you're gonna be on Broadway one day.' I sometimes think about my younger self knowing that and how ridiculously she's sobbing somewhere, so I would love to tell her that it's all going to happen.
Beanie Feldstein
Love
Day
You
Sometimes
Girl
Somewhere
Think
Say
Broadway
One Day
Tell
Would
About
Self
Talk
Knowing
She
How
Were
Going
Happen
Gonna
Younger
Ridiculously
Her
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
Bede Griffiths
Freedom
Obedience
Responsibility
Men
Radical
Detachment
Self
Most
Principle
Makes
Us
Root
Reason
You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
Bede Griffiths
You
Mother
Father
Wife
Everything
Abandon
Must
One Thing
Give
Only
Self
Unconditionally
Also
Ready
Material
Up
Human
Children
The One Thing
Which
Your
Thing
Everything a teenager does, says or looks at, however transitory, contributes to an aggregated virtual self that might one day have consequences for its real-life counterpart. How many of us would keep all our relationships and reputations intact if every transgression, mistake or youthful folly was held in public view?
Beeban Kidron
Day
Mistake
Every
Consequences
Virtual
Teenager
Relationships
Our
Everything
Says
One Day
Would
Folly
Self
Counterpart
Looks
Does
How
Intact
However
Public
Transgression
Might
Transitory
Reputations
Us
Held
View
Youthful
Many
Keep
The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
Benazir Bhutto
Time
Matter
Nation
Before
United Nations
Every
Defence
Charter
Gives
Attack
Self
Causes
Were
American
Suspected
Going
Nations
Therefore
United
Bombed
Right
Every Nation
If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.
Benjamin Clementine
Judge
Matter
Out
Something
Self
Forced
Always
Fake
Real
Going
Real Self
Being
Want
Happens
Whether
Aware
If you have parents who can't show you love, a kid can grow up to look arrogant. Because they need to create a fake self. Or they think they're more powerful than they really are.
Benjamin Clementine
Love
You
Parents
Arrogant
Think
Kid
More
Self
Powerful
Look
Because
Fake
Up
Than
Create
Really
Show
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Need
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