Jane Austen Quotes, Heart Quotes, Self Quotes

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Air Quotes , Self Quotes

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.

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The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But one thing I do know. When I get there I am not going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Moses? Why weren't you David?' I am only going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Zuscha? Why weren't you fully you?'"

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Tags : Alan Loy McGinnis Quotes , Self Quotes , Would Be Quotes

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Tasks Quotes

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Self Quotes , Six Quotes

By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Self Quotes , Imagination Quotes

To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.

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Self-help is the best help

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It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Self Quotes , Poetry Quotes

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

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The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Self Quotes , Pity Quotes

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Civilization Quotes

What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Errors Quotes , Self Quotes

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

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When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

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Tags : Rabindranath Tagore Quotes , Passion Quotes , Self Quotes

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

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