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Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept. -- Hugh Prather
Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. -- Henry David Thoreau
Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with. -- Cornel West
Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. -- C. S. Lewis
Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God. -- Richard Rohr
The new ground that you form in your living is a new self, a new self that isn't at all of the middle ground, a lived-in self that has no need of middle ground. That new self makes unseen reality within seen. -- John de Ruiter
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not. -- Jessica Simpson
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices. -- bell hooks
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made? -- Robert Penn Warren
You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else. -- Haruki Murakami
That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with. -- Joseph Conrad
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. -- Eric Hoffer
Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. That's why I love trying out new things. -- Ashley Madekwe
It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem. -- Sheena Easton
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books. -- Caroline Leavitt
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. -- Carlos Fuentes
Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media. -- Gina Bellman
New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. -- Douglas Rushkoff
As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith. -- Mark Hatfield
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest. -- Evan Bayh
The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills. -- Tony Buzan
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. -- Alexander McQueen
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With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. -- Peter Abrahams
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one. -- Walter Kirn
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression. -- Manning Marable
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self. -- Lewis Thomas
I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style. -- Camila Alves
New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes. -- Arabella Weir
Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away. It says, 'This is the ultimate polis, through which humans move like nematodes.' -- Will Self
The new definition of freedom today is self-determination. -- John Hope Bryant
Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit. -- Victoria Moran
With every breath, the possibility of a new aspect of self arises. -- Wayne Muller
We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve. -- Eden Robinson
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city. -- Walter Lippmann
Banks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations. -- Herve Falciani
Fashion is ultimately a form of self-expression. Thats why I love trying out new things. -- Ashley Madekwe
Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self. -- Bill Courtney
If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression . -- Oprah Winfrey
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. -- Dean Koontz
Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind. -- Ethel Percy Andrus
There is a self-destructive program running in the consciousness of humanity, and we must write a new program. -- Bryant McGill
You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you. -- Deepak Chopra
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception. -- Jaggi Vasudev
When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you. -- Peter Kreeft
The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) -- Nora Ephron
The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about. -- Fred Alan Wolf
For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new. -- Ariel Pink
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul. -- John Flavel
... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self. -- Arnulf Rainer
Practice unfettered living from the heart, abandoning all self-imposed limitations to emerge a new, creativity unleashed, giving of yourself like never before. -- Pooja Ruprell
We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance. -- Gerald R. Ford
God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits. -- Beth Moore
In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter. -- B. Barmanbek
Researchers here in New York created a robot that actually passed a self-awareness test. So if you're keeping score, that's robots: 1, Donald Trump, 0. -- Jimmy Fallon
Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath. -- Wayne Muller
When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern. -- Maxwell Maltz
Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.. -- Guy Finley
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression. -- Edgar Winter
Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail. -- Charles Bukowski
Going forward, you must adjust to the new reality, be more self directed, and learn to be productive under the reign of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unstable times. -- Jennifer Touma
Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice. -- Joel Osteen
The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people we observe who practice self-discovery just get caught up in a new description, a new "ism", a new religion, a new god. But nothing changes. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred. -- John Podhoretz
You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self. -- Sandra Bullock
I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself. -- Jamie Wyeth
Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour. -- Vartan Gregorian
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability. -- Liam Fox
Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha. -- Zenkei Shibayama
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It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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The new enlightened self-understanding reminds us that there is no final destination to our journey. The process itself is the destination. There is nowhere we need to arrive to. -- Raphael Zernoff
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology. -- Richard Buckminster Fuller
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology. -- Richard Buckminster Fuller

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