Barack Obama Quotes, Simple Quotes, Self Quotes

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.

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What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.

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Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

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Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

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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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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

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... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.

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Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

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And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

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Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

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As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.

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Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

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To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

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A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.

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