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  • Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Two Quotes
  • So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Self Quotes
  • I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abdullah Ocalan Quotes , War Quotes , Self Quotes
  • In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Self Quotes
  • To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jack London Quotes , Sunshine Quotes , Self Quotes