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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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Self Quotes , Atheism Quotes
  • She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Real Quotes , Self Quotes
  • In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Air Quotes , Self Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Taken Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Well, I have considered myself to be very fortunate in that I have been able to do mostly only that which my inner self told me to do... I am also aware that I do receive much criticism from the outside world for what I do and some people actually get angry at me. But this does not really touch me because I feel that these people do not live in he same world as do I.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Wall Quotes , Self Quotes
  • A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes