Adrienne Rich Quotes, Self Quotes, Numbness Quotes

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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I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

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Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

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Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.

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If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

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Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

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Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

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For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

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The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self.

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We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

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The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

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In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

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But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

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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