Walt Whitman Quotes, Self Quotes, Soul Quotes

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

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Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.

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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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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

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Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Self Quotes , Serenity Quotes

The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Ideas Quotes

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

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

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Truth Quotes , Self Quotes

Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

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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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As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.

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

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Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

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The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Self Quotes , Want Quotes

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Attachment Quotes , Self Quotes

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Done Quotes

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Self Quotes

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Discovery Quotes , Self Quotes