Jane Austen Quotes, Maturity Quotes, Self Quotes

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Self Quotes , Pity Quotes

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.

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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

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Those who are self-righteous are not prominent.

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That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!

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If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.

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Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

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We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

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