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I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

Self-plagiarism is style.

Alfred Hitchcock

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Gordon B. Hinckley

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel