Laozi Quotes, Self Quotes, Achievement Quotes

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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Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Dirty Quotes , Self Quotes

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Self Quotes , Pygmalion Quotes

The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Self Quotes , Denial Quotes

Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Boys Quotes , Self Quotes

Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

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The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence, and that One Existence, when it passes through the forms of time, space, causation, is called by different names, buddhi, fine matter, gross matter, all mental and physical forms. Everything in the universe is that One, appearing in various forms. When a little part of it comes, as it were, into this network of time, space and causation, it takes forms. Take off the network, and it is all one.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Self Quotes , Names Quotes

Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .

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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

Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Life Quotes , Self Quotes

When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.

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I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Fear Quotes , Self Quotes

I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Self Quotes , Might Quotes

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Revenge Quotes , Self Quotes

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

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Tags : A. S. Byatt Quotes , Christian Quotes , Self 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.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes