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  • Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. Lewdness is hateful because it impairs our integrity and our proud being. The creative, spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Fate Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes
  • The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes , Art Quotes , Self Quotes
  • A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes
  • The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlighten'
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Self Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes