Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

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

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

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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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Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

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Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

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Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

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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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The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

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So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Self Quotes , Silence Quotes

Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.

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I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul

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Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."

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To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Self Quotes , Intellectual Quotes

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

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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

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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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