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It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
Margaret Fuller
Better
Walk
Abandon
Madder
Wounded
Seems
Self
Never
Armor
Always
Infatuated
Than
Often
Captive
Slave
On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.
Mika Brzezinski
Morning
Have Fun
Sometimes
Think
Say
Unorthodox
Joe
Self
Well
Fun
Serious
I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.
Nicole Richie
Fashion
Believe
Mood
Self
Self-Expression
Ultimate
Depends
Form
Really
Therefore
Expression
If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
Oliver Sacks
Man
Lost
Eye
Self
He
Longer
Know
Himself
Knows
Because
Leg
Cannot
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
Orison Swett Marden
Best
You
Achievement
Man
Quality
Yourself
Will
Big
Depend
Possible
See
Self
Sort
How
Accomplishments
Very
Get
Size
Your
Largely
Image
I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.
Paul Mooney
Success
Battle
World
Black
Seen
White
Constant
More
Self
Never
Between
Over
Him
Messed
Messed Up
Real
His
Up
Than
Pryor
Anyone
Richard
Richard Pryor
White World
Keeping
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
Peter Abrahams
Dreams
Myself
World
Books
Born
Shakespeare
Poetry
Self
Self-Consciousness
New
Know
Terms
New World
Standards
Consciousness
Desired
Desires
Set
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Ramakrishna
Knowledge
You
Yourself
Wealth
Will
First
Live
Way
Self
True
True Knowledge
Surely
Affect
Midst
Then
Fortify
Universal
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
Ramana Maharshi
Happiness
Must
Self
Open
His
Order
Store
Realise
I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
Ramana Maharshi
Self
Perishable
Am
Eternal
Body
I have this game with my friends: When we go out, if 'Treat yo' self' is tagged within the last six minutes on Twitter, they buy lunch. If not, I buy. They always buy.
Retta
Buy
Game
Treat
Lunch
Twitter
Out
Minutes
Tagged
Self
Within
Always
Go
Friends
Six
Last
It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
Saint Ignatius
Struggle
Soul
Peace
Achieve
Virtue
Possess
Both
Self
Never
Advances
Make
Industrious
Because
Any
Fronts
Energetic
While
Against
Notable
Certain
Fullness
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
Samantha Morton
You
Yourself
People
Doing The Right Thing
First
Down
Society
Books
Right Thing
Eating
Foods
Self
Part
Know
Look
Know Yourself
Self-Help
Got
Shelves
Doing
Opposed
Encouraged
Getting
Being
So-Called
The Right Thing
Themselves
Your
Help
Even
Right
Thing
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
Samuel Smiles
Duty
Sense
Neighbors
Self
Highest
Involves
Helping
I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy.
Sandra Cisneros
Work
Best
Needs
Privacy
Try
More
Writer
Self
True
Protecting
Limitations
Understand
Still
Than
Place
Which
While
Ever
Strengths
The authentic self is the soul made visible.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Inspirational
Soul
Made
Visible
Self
Authentic
Authentic Self
Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
Sue Monk Kidd
God
Soul
Creation
Our
Seed
Divine
Self
Divinity
True
True Self
Real
Imprinted
Human
Where
Capacity
Spark
Depths
Rooted
Human Soul
Image
Here
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.
Susan Cain
Disappointment
Somewhere
Society
Our
Rarely
Self
Ideal
Between
Alpha
Articulated
Pathology
Gregarious
Held
Viewed
Bold
Belief
Widely
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
Thomas Szasz
You
Selfish
Yourself
Duty
Others
Considered
Easier
Reliable
Self
Than
Your
Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.
Tracy McMillan
Love
Self-Respect
You
Met
Enough
Would
Exact
Totally
Guy
Absolutely
Self
Until
Him
Ready
Want
Really
Your
Thing
Here
I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.
Vera Wang
Woman
People
Personality
Challenge
Focus
Clothes
Sense
See
Dress
Adore
Self
Revealed
Truly
Modern
Where
Want
Creating
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.
Walter Kirn
Construction
First
Accident
Out
Followed
Ritual
Self
Step
Toward
New
Names
Most
Anonymous
Redemption
First Step
Self-Help
New One
American
Use
Groups
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
Wendell Pierce
You
Consequences
Self
True
Because
True Self
Paid
Your
Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.
Jon Huntsman, Sr.
Love
God
Feelings
Worst
Possible
Self
Self-Pity
Opposite
Affect
Times
Disease
Just
Pity
Which
Mankind
Then
Us
My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.
Marianne Williamson
Me
Healing
Those
Lies
My Self
Self
Praying
Who
Harmed
The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.
A. J. Jacobs
Future
You
Respect
Treat
Key
Financial
Honor
Made
Healthy
Saw
Those
Photo
Would
Self
Study
Smarter
Like
Him
Making
Self-Made
Friend
Loved
Loved One
Decisions
Your
Who
Stanford
Her
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