Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Destiny Quotes, Self Quotes

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

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Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

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The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

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

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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

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They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

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Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Self Quotes , Self Control Quotes

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.

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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

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Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.

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Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

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Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.

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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

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

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Know thy self, know thy enemy.

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