Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Real Quotes, Self Quotes

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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Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation.

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There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

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Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

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Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

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

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Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality

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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

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The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

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Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things.

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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

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