Saint Augustine Quotes, Faith Quotes, Self Quotes

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

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Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the Godward endeavour of the human spirit. An immense many-sided many-staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Sanatana Dharma.

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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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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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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Welfare Quotes

Abortion is an act of self-defense.

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She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Real Quotes , Self Quotes

Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

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

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Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Tasks Quotes

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Self Quotes , Why Not Quotes

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Unique Quotes , Self Quotes

I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums... All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me... Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Echoes Quotes , Self Quotes

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

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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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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.

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A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

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

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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Self Quotes , Ignorant Quotes

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Self Quotes