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#1

“Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: change, changing, growing, growth, mind, self, true, true-to-yourself

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#2

“Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

tags: bertrand-russell, continuity, descartes, existence, existentialism, experience, self, thought, uncertainty

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#3

“To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together.

The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out in love -- the lines of self blur, and just for a wild, flickering moment you experience the miracle of other.

And now you know the secret.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: alone, loneliness, not-alone, others, self

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#4

“On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.

Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk?

He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see is a dark coat and the shoes striking the puddles.

And yet this person is the hero of his own life story.

He is the love of someone’s life.

And what he can do may change the world.

Imagine being him for a moment.

And then continue on your own way.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: anonymity, anonymous, hero, heroes, life, people, rain, self, story, stranger, strangers

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#5

“Doffing the ego's
safe glory, he finds
his naked reality.”
― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

tags: ego, reality, self, zen

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#6

“The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.

It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe.

And it is the one most accurate symbol of you.

Spread your arms in an embrace, throw your head back, and prepare to receive and send coordinates of being. For, at last you know—you are the navigator, the captain, and the ship.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: all, captain, compass-rose, coordinates, direction, directions, entity, navigator, one, person, rays, receive, self, send, ship, symbol, the-universe, universe, you

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#7

“You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself.

Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self.

Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy.

Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself.

Otherwise, cede your gavel.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: acceptance, charity, fair, fairness, judge, judgment, justice, mercy, personal, self, self-esteem

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#8

“When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.”
― Kim McMillen, When I Loved Myself Enough

tags: self

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#9

“Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.

But what about your true name?

It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.

Ever wonder why?

Your true name has the secret power to call you.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: answer, call, calling, evoke, invoke, name, names, naming, nickname, nicknames, respond, response, self, true, true-name, truth

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#10

“We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: newspapers, self, strangeness, weirdness

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#11

“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.”
― Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

tags: body, circle, dream, iris, magic, meditation, mind, palmetto, perception, self, water

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#12

“Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self.”
― Lotoya Peterson

tags: medieval, mentality, self, tool

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#13

“I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I'm not one of the self-hating ones. The type of like "I'm shit and the world'd be better off without poor me" type that says that but also imagines what everybody'll say at their funeral. I've met types like that on wards. Poor-me-I-hate-me-punish-me-come-to-my-funeral. Then they show you a 20 X 25 glossy of their dead cat. It's all self-pity bullshit. It's bullshit. I didn't have any special grudges. I didn't fail an exam or get dumped by anybody. All these types. Hurt themselves. I didn't want to especially hurt myself. Or like punish. I don't hate myself. I just wanted out. I didn't want to play anymore is all. I wanted to just stop being conscious. I'm a whole different type. I wanted to stop feeling this way. If I could have just put myself in a really long coma I would have done that. Or given myself shock I would have done that. Instead.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: feeling, hate, self, self-harm, suicide

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#14

“There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist - The Gonzo Letters, Volume II, 1968-1976

tags: 1968, america, independence, self

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#15

“We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.”
― Kristin Martz

tags: self

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#16

“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as brain-bound is not an intuition, but a prejudice.”
― István Aranyosi, The Peripheral Mind: Philosophy of Mind and the Peripheral Nervous System

tags: brain, nervous-system, neuroscience, pain, phenomenology, philosophy, self, sensory

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#17

“...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

tags: ambition, balanced-life, contentment, self

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#18

“...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

tags: darkness, fear, monsters, self

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#19

“Once upon a time, began the story of you.

Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.

And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.

Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: development, events, future, life, lifetime, past, present, self, story, twist, twists, you, your-sory

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#20

“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations. For to all things that are not unknowable, all things in the universe, there correspond in that universe faculties which can take cognisance of them, and in man, the microcosm, these faculties are always existant and at a certain stage capable of development. We may choose not to develop them; where they are partially developed, we may discourage and impose on them a kind of atrophy. But, fundamentally all possible knowledge is knowledge within the power of humanity. And since in man there is the inalienable impulse of Nature towards self-realisation, no struggle of the intellect to limit the action of our capacities within a determined area can for ever prevail.”
― Sri Aurobindo

tags: brahman, knowledge, mind, philosophy, self, truth

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#21

“I want to be two people at once. One runs away.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

tags: alienation, disassociation, duality, grief, loss, self

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#22

“The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

tags: expectations, greatness, occasion, self, truth

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#23

“There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

tags: change, flexibility, humorous, personal-development, personality, self

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#24

“Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.”
― Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

tags: existentialism, philosophy, self

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#25

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

tags: love, pain, relationships, self

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