Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Self Quotes , Years Quotes

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Light Quotes , Self Quotes

I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Self Quotes , Principles Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Eye Quotes , Self Quotes

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Communication Quotes , Self Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Self Quotes , Social Quotes

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Self Quotes , May Quotes

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Self Quotes , Harmony Quotes

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Self Quotes

To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adi Shankara Quotes , Wise Quotes , Self Quotes

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?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes

Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Frustration Quotes , Self Quotes

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Self Quotes , Heaven Quotes

When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Self Quotes , Giving 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Two Quotes

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes