Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Book Quotes, Self Quotes

To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once you begin to read, you must read every word, every sentence, every paragraph for in them are the intimations of the whole. The beginning of it is the ending of it. If you know how to read, supreme wisdom is to be found.

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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

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This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

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For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

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

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

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Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

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We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

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As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

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What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

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Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

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