Alan Watts Quotes, Frustration Quotes, Self Quotes

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

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How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Self Quotes , Order Quotes

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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God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not he who cried, 'God, where art Thou?' It was God who cried, 'Adam, where art thou?'

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Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

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The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

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The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

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Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

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It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

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What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Errors 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.

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Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

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The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.

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ONE MUST BE COMPASSIONATE TO ONE'S SELF BEFORE EXTERNAL COMPASSION.

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The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

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

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Self Quotes

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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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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