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  • 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
  • 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.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes
  • There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Self Quotes , Soul Quotes
  • Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Self Quotes , May Quotes
  • Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears inevitably follow transgression. Men, take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes
  • It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , New York Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Self Quotes , Inquiry Quotes
  • The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Rights Quotes , Self Quotes
  • All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.
    • 5 years ago



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