Adolph Gottlieb Quotes, Discovery Quotes, Self Quotes

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

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I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

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Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Self Quotes , Foundation Quotes

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.

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Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

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If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

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That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.

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The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Self Quotes , Imagination Quotes

A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.

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Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

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Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

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Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

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There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Fear Quotes , Self Quotes

The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

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You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

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