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Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it.
Coretta Scott King
Best
You
People
Try
Just Be
Satisfied
Self
Know
Knowing
Am
Maybe
Just
Eventually
I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
Dalia Mogahed
Work
Myself
Character
You
Perseverance
Courage
Tell
Admire
Self
Develop
Self-Discipline
Up
Friends
Traits
Against
Stand
Stand Up
Even
Right
It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
Damon Albarn
Character
Me
Old
Hiding
Self
Like
Behind
Anymore
Old Self
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
Daniel Bell
Knowledge
World
Own
Field
Relates
Out
Seeks
Point
Self
Takes
Terrain
Accepts
Scientist
His
Existing
Intellectual
Unexplored
Sensibilities
Map
Starting
Starting Point
You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.
Daniel Radcliffe
You
Become
Sense
Say
Out
Kind
Find
Self
Screwed
Them
Aside
Then
Really
Who
Media
Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.
David Rakoff
Life
Time
Best
Age
Old
Somewhere
Everyone
Self
Between
Most
Felt
Always
Least
Years
Clock
Very
Authentic
Authentic Self
Then
Internal
There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
Deepak Chopra
Time
Mind
Fall
Separation
Other
Self
Between
Body
Away
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
Diane Ackerman
Memories
Change
Emotions
Important
Relationships
Intimate
Delicate
Shape
Self
Fail
Most
Altering
Ultimate
Brain
Souvenir
Us
Foster
Bonds
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
Edward T. Hall
Man
Experience
Own
Valid
Validating
Self
He
True
Until
Another
Does
His
Cultural
Experiences
Little
Reason
Basis
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon
Man
Giveth
Counsel
Self
Between
Himself
Friend
Difference
Flatterer
Much
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
George Eliot
World
Vision
Will
Our
Out
See
Only
Troublesome
Self
Know
Glory
Leave
Very
Close
Blot
Tiny
Which
Speck
Margin
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ego
Distant
Cosmos
More
Self
Never
Understand
Than
Any
May
Star
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Hugo Black
Happiness
Life
First
Lasting
Aiming
Way
Pleasure
Paradox
Seek
Something
Purpose
Outside
Self
Miss
Condition
Very
Should
Full
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
Irvine Welsh
Women
Feminism
Out
Run
Give
Self
Sheer
Self-Preservation
Aside
Shot
Stand
Show
Preservation
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean-Luc Godard
Art
Secret
Our
Only
Self
Most
Attracts
Reveals
Us
I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
Jeannette Walls
Me
Confidence
Parents
Sense
Self
Never
Had
Self-Confidence
Real
Question
Any
Real Sense
Loved
When you fit meditation into your day, you bring much more of yourself to all the other hours of your day - you bring your whole self rather than your stressed-out self.
Jeff Kober
Day
You
Yourself
Meditation
Other
Rather
More
Self
Hours
Fit
Than
Much
Your
Whole
Bring
For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.
Jeff Koons
Art
Me
You
Trust
Acceptance
Starts
Something
Perfect
Self
Come
Within
Where
Anything
Wherever
Really
Found
Bring
We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.
Jessie Buckley
Dark
Every
Our
Out
Dark Shadows
Shadows
Self
Come
Then
Now
Now And Then
I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.
John Eccles
Me
Evolution
Darwinian
Self
Had
Came
Experiencing
Realise
Explanation
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
June Jordan
Me
You
Natural
Writing
Law
Political
Language
Sister
White
Down
Lying
Our
Brother
Brother And Sister
Unreal
Lay
Habits
Self
Weird
Like
Supposed
Schools
Holy
Choke
Why
Speech
One of the things you hear about when studying the nature of fanaticism is that a lot of the time, people don't start as fanatics. They shift and evolve into that state. That's a process, a systematic process of losing your identity and sense of self.
Karyn Kusama
Time
Nature
You
People
Losing
Sense
State
Systematic
Evolve
One Of The Things
About
Self
Studying
Identity
Shift
Hear
Lot
Time People
Fanaticism
Process
Fanatics
Your
Things
Start
Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.
LeAnn Rimes
You
People
Sense
Self
Caught
Up
Get
Want
Your
Keep
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.
Leonard Mlodinow
Motivational
Architecture
Mind
Awareness
Our
Mental
Rather
Mental Processes
Outside
Self
Arise
Like
Operate
Forces
Because
Due
Been
Subject
Brain
Subliminal
Than
Repression
Processes
Inaccessible
Conscious
Portions
There is a part of 'Wonder Woman' inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, caring for our children and companions and loved ones.
Lynda Carter
Me
Woman
Women
Giving
Every
Birth
Caretakers
Secret
Caring
Our
Kind
Inside
Self
Share
Part
Wonder
Wonder Woman
Children
Loved
Loved Ones
Companions
Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
Maggie Grace
Motorcycle
Ride
Self
Never
Note
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