Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Believe Quotes, Self Quotes

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

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Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.

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Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

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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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One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

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A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Time Quotes , Self Quotes

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

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Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

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For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

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A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

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

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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

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Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

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Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.

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Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

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

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For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

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