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The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
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Erich Fromm

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Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.
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Erich Fromm

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If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.
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Erich Fromm

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Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.
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Erich Fromm

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Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.
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Erich Fromm

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I've been calling myself 'just an actor' since I was 6 years old. That's a long time.
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Ari Graynor

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I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.
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Ari Graynor

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Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens - are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.
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H. L. Mencken

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Myself, first of all, I am a Jew. And that is the most important thing for me.
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H. L. Mencken

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When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.
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Anne Marie

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I keep saying to everyone that one day I'll write a love song.
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Anne Marie

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I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.
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Adam Lambert

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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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Adam Lambert

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The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.
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Adam Lambert

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I have nothing to hide.
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Adam Lambert

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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Adam Lambert

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There's no regrets for me.
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Adam Lambert

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I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.
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Adam Lambert

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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Quote by - Thomas Carlyle

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What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
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Stephen King

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Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to reflect complexity.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk-the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behaviour, the second can wilt if not cultivated.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Quote by - Mark Twain

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We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.
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Julia Cameron

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In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.
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Julia Cameron

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We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.
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Julia Cameron

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Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges.
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Julia Cameron

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We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express...
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Julia Cameron

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Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.
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Julia Cameron

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There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.
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Julia Cameron

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Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
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Julia Cameron

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As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.
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Julia Cameron

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The face of love is variable. I am able to love without demanding that my relationships assume the structures and forms I might choose for them. My love is fluid, flexible, committed, creative. My love allows people and events to unfold as they need. My love is not controlling. It does not dictate or demand. My love allows those I love the freedom to assume the forms most true to them. I release all those I love from my preconceptions of their path. I allow them the dignity of self-definition while I offer them a constant love that is every variable in shape.
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Julia Cameron

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As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .
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Julia Cameron

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The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.
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Julia Cameron

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It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

Quote by - Bill Gates

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Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Quote by - Alice Walker

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Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the satisfaction I so much desire, the result is always the opposite of what I tried to get. A complainer is hard to live with, and very few people know how to respond to the complaints made by a self-rejecting person. The tragedy is that, often, the complaint, once expressed, leads to that which is most feared: further rejection.
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Henri Nouwen

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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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Henri Nouwen

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Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.
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Henri Nouwen

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Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
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Henri Nouwen

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The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.
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Henri Nouwen

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