"Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self."
6
"If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone."
6
"If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic."
7
"The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others."
7
"The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life."
8
"Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure."
7
"The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist."
13
"Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there's been a liberating force that's come from it."
6
"Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I'm seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors technologies and putting them in cars and making people safer."
8
"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
8
"To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius."
6
"I was watching 'Mr. Roger's Neighborhood', 'Sesame Street', 'Electric Company', 'Romper Room', and 'Villa Alegre!' when I said to my self, 'Hey, self! Wouldn't it be fun to be one of those kids on the TV' My mom thought it was a pretty good idea, too... and she instantly moved us from the Bay Area to Malibu... nice."
8
"As others have recently suggested, the term 'gamer' is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her i Pad. So I'll take a cue from my younger self and say I don't care about being a 'gamer,' but I sure do love video games."
7
"You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing this person, and you're your sad self when playing another person - but it's all a part of you somewhere."
7
"Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel."
12
"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
6
"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
7
"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."
6
"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
8
"I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."
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