28 Quotes About Selfhood
- Author Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri
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Hold tight to what is most yourself,Don't squander it, don't let your lifeBe governed by what disturbs you.
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- Author Anthony Liccione
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Let me be me, or let me be.
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- Author Neel Burton
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There are a great number of ego defenses, and the combinations and circumstances in which we use them reflect on our personality. Indeed, one could go so far as to argue that the self is nothing but the sum of its ego defenses, which are constantly shaping, upholding, protecting, and repairing it.The self is like a cracked mask that is in constant need of being pieced together. But behind the mask there is nobody at home.
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- Author Max Porter
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[Grief] is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms.
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- Author John Green
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One of the strange things about adulthood is that you are your current self, but you are also all the selves you used to be, the ones you grew out of but can't ever quite get rid of.
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- Author Fredrik Backman
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She was just one person out of several billion, and most people never become individuals to us. They're just people. We're just strangers passing each other, your anxieties briefly brushing against mine as the fibers of our coats touch momentarily on a crowded sidewalk somewhere. We never really know what we do to each other, with each other, for each other.
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- Author Ray A. Davis
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Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.
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- Author Parker J. Palmer
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Today I understand vocation quite differently-not as a goal to be achieved but as a gift to be received. Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice "out there" calling me to become something I am not. It comes from a voice "in here" calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God,
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- Author Omar Kholeif
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We now live in a world where notions of selfhood have become increasingly malleable,
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