Self

TMcmasters

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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed
by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of
owning yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever
willing to admit it." - Author Unknown

"He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from
without." - Goethe

"Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself."
- Ralph Waldo Trine

"As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him,
that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go
outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will
look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be
found - in himself." - Erich Frohm

Todd McMasters

Tom

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"It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all
the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities...
interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective
identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds
for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible...."

C. G. Jung, _Memories, Dreams, Reflections_, Chapter 12

Tom Parsons
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t...@panix.com | No matter how cynical you get,
| it's impossible to keep up.
http://www.panix.com/~twp | --Lily Tomlin

Mariza Cabral

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Sep 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/22/96

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In article <51ku9t$s...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
TMcmasters <tmcma...@aol.com> wrote:
>[...]

>
>"Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever
> willing to admit it." - Author Unknown

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Though we can straight away eliminate the half of the world's
population not included in the sentence.

Barry Fetter

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Sep 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/22/96

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mar...@u.washington.edu (Mariza Cabral) inanely quotes herself:

>>"Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever
>> willing to admit it." - Author Unknown
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Though we can straight away eliminate the half of the world's
>population not included in the sentence.

589 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of
conversation but not the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Richard Wechsler

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Sep 23, 1996, 3:00:00 AM9/23/96

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These quotes about self can be found on 'The Curmudgeon Quotelist' at
http://www.lm.com/~rww/index.html

"Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something
that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been
fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a
savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury
inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself."
Paul Valéry

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night
and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
e. e. cummings

"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No man is free who is not master of himself."
Epictetus

"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be
right alone."
John Kenneth Galbraith

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."
Raymond Hull

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Richard Wechsler

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These are more quotes about self from 'The Curmudgeon Quotelist' at
http://www.lm.com/~rww/index.html

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."
Henrik Ibsen

"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and
everything for yourself."
Henry James

"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
Archibald MacLiesh

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an
exception."
Nietzsche

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

"I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself."
Samuel Johnson