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" Quotes and Sayings About self

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

About Comet Find Know
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Constraint Constraints Execution More
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Burn Cannot Itself Kindle
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Also Anything Defence Fight
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To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Around Care Go Go Home
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Adventuring Ordinary Person Qualities
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True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Aware Awareness Between Caught
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You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Bring Depend Happiness Helps
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Used World Constantly Walking
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Being Being Busy Busy Consciousness
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Difficult Love Love Is Oneself
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Amazed Commit Getting Getting Married
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I will control myself, or go inside. I will not flaw perfection with my grief. Handsome, this day: no matter who has died.

Control Myself Flaw Perfection
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Almost Always Becomes Demands
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Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots, Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup,
Under Ground Brains Eaten
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

Act Any Being Concept
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Believed Imagined Just Myself
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But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

Achieve Goals Had Hard
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

Back Balance Colonialism Fight
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

Basically Cows Fresh Fruit
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

Any Around Became Cannot
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Simple Blinders Read Book
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Book Character First First Thing
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Expectation Kind Meet Myself
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

Aside Feminism Give Out
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Apprentice Became Decent Electric
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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

About Circumstances Difficult Grew
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Books Genre Like Love
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

Audience Book I Write Perceive
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Also Betray Else Somebody
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Asked Before Box Ever
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I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

Carry Demands Dignity Her
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I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

Like Marriage Myself Prepare
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If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
Done Get Go Myself
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I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Alone Care Earned Grown
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In all you do and achieve in this life, please be thankful to the Creator and don’t take pride to yourself.
Achieve Life Please Thankful
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Educate yourself, my people, never stop reading and learning, we need to awake!

Educate People Reading Awake
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Stop seeking people’s validation. The value you place on yourself will determine the value people place on you.

Stop Validation Value Place
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How much do you believe in yourself? How much do you believe in what you carry on the inside? This is where success starts from. Believe in yourself, let it become a state of mind. Everything is foreign.

How-much Believe Yourself
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Choose your friends based on your destiny. Do not associate yourself with just anybody. You have to be pragmatic about who you allow into your life. You have a destination, the company you keep will determine how and if you will get there

Friends Destiny Associate Life
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Separate yourself from the familiar. You cannot hang out with people who make you weak and expect to me strong. You cannot hang around people who feel intimated by you. Instead of being inspired. Trust me, it won’t be long before they begin to plot against you.

Separate Yourself Familiar People
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Identity is a funny thing, just when you think you have defined yourself. There is always another chapter or another challenge. It is all about getting out of your comfort zone. Until you do you’ll never know what you are capable of.

Identity Funny Defined Comfort-zone
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There is a specific location for you to be valued. Don’t put yourself in the wrong place and get angry at how you are treated. Who knows your value is who appreciates you, don’t stay in a place that doesn’t suit you. Know your worth!

Location Wrong Place Angry
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Another Any Bewildered Considerable
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Ancient Confines Ease Happy
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When you humbly know who you are, you ooze self confidence…It’s powerful.

Humbly Self-confidence Powerful
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Keep working on yourself…the mirror remains my best teacher.

Keep Working Mirror Best
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I’m never in competition with anyone…I stay true to myself.
Never Competition Stay True
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It is said that the 1966 coup that failed was strictly an Igbo coup, but then the irony of history is that it was the late General Aguiyi Ironsi, an Igbo who single-handedly dismantled the coup in Lagos, while my humble self, another Igbo-man rendered it immobile in the north.

1966 Coup Igbo Aguiyi Ironsi
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If a leader accepts himself as already dead to society, there will be no reason for cowardice in his leadership.

Leader Society Dead Cowardice
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