Charles Dickens Quotes, Self Quotes, Expectations Quotes

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Self Quotes , Humanity Quotes

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Self Quotes

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Self Quotes , Focus Quotes

The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.

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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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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

Black implies white self implies other

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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Self Quotes , Soul Quotes

Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Self Quotes , Perception Quotes

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Self Quotes , Law Quotes

I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Self Quotes , Athletic Quotes

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

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Self Quotes , Looks Quotes

Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Pain Quotes , Self Quotes

Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.

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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Self Quotes , Worry Quotes

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Self Quotes

Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Self Quotes

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Eye Quotes , Self Quotes