Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Museums Quotes, Self Quotes

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

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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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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Eye Quotes , Self Quotes

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

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Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

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Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Self Quotes , Survival Quotes

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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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

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A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

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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

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Deception Quotes

To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.

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Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

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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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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Self Quotes , Weapons Quotes

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Self Quotes

The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Eye Quotes , Self Quotes

I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society - from a give-it-to-me, to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

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The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

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