Voltaire Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Self Quotes

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

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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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It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

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And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.

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Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.

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It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

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

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

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Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

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Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

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Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Eye Quotes , Self Quotes

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.

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One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments.

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What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

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Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Self Quotes , Swallowing Quotes

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , God Quotes , Self Quotes

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

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