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For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of representational content in one's currently active phenomenal self-model: It has, episodically, become a dynamic inner model of a knowing self. -- Thomas Metzinger
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. -- David Lee Roth
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. -- Theodor Adorno
I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist. -- Ariel Garten
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John Wooden
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. -- John Wooden
You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate. -- Jenifer Lewis
The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool - as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative. -- Martin Filler
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory. -- Terry Gross
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. -- Wayne Dyer
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Scientific facts are often described in textbooks as if they just sort of exist, like nickels someone picked up on the street. But science at the cutting edge, conducted by sharp minds probing deep into nature, is not about self-evident facts. It is about mystery and not knowing. It is about taking huge risks. -- Richard Preston
I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking. -- Eddie Marsan
Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that. -- Lizzo
My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had. -- George Brett
Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me. -- Jack Canfield
Knowing the Self, God is known. -- Ramana Maharshi
Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream. -- Oprah Winfrey
Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself. -- Alfred Adler
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly. -- Plotinus
Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably. -- Brian Tracy
The self-realized spirit is merely a spirit emancipated from fear, judgement and knowing. -- Bryant McGill
People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God. -- Gian Kumar
Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self. -- Gretchen Rubin
I think self-confidence doesn't come so much from knowing you're great as just knowing who you are. -- Penelope Trunk
Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances. -- John C. Maxwell
Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, do or do not. There is no 'try' -- Gene Simmons
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength. -- Laozi
He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self. -- Meister Eckhart
Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness. -- Joanie Connell
Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are. -- John Bradshaw
... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists. -- Kazuo Chiba
Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy. -- Alaya Dawn Johnson
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre. -- Kenneth Tynan
The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate. -- Sakyong Mipham
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are. -- Paul Auster
Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent. -- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external. -- Common
Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get. -- Shirley Conran
Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being. -- Harold Klemp
The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change. -- William E. Rees
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. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing. -- John de Ruiter
I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing. -- Peter Shepherd
Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open. It comes back to balance. -- Eva Mendes
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves. -- Gloria Steinem
We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
We are each what never leaves us, what we never seethe back ofis the self. But what loves usis at the back, as Eurydice wasescorting him outwithout his knowing. -- Christina Davis
Colliding with the bright lightOf my true self,My illusions scream loudly,Themselves illusionsCreated by other illusions,Finally knowing thatDeep within meBeneath the shellLies the sacred beautyOf my true self. -- Ilchi Lee

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