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Tag: self, self, knowledge

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that’s your own self.

self, self, knowledge

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

self, self, knowledge

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

self, self, knowledge

James Russell Lowell

Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this – that you are dreadfully like other people.

self, self, knowledge

Josi Ortega y Gasset

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

self, self, knowledge

My closest relation is myself.

self, self, knowledge

I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.

self, self, knowledge

Arthur Davison Ficke

A man must learn to forgive himself.

self, self, knowledge

I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.

self, self, knowledge

God knows I’m no the thing I should be Nor am I even the thing I could be.

self, self, knowledge

Bernard Lonergan

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is never in this life is the making finished always it is in process always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

self, self, knowledge

I’m a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

self, self, knowledge