Nikola Tesla Quotes, Self Quotes, Joy Quotes

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

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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

Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.

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Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Self Quotes , Inquiry Quotes

We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.

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Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Self Quotes

This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

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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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We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Self Quotes , People Quotes

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

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Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Truth Quotes , Self Quotes

I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.

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Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

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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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Tags : Plato Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Self 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

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Self Quotes , Rivers Quotes

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Civilization 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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Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called enemy is actually the destruction of your self.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Self Quotes , Survival Quotes