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  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Self Quotes
  • 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."
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Men Quotes , Self 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Dream Quotes , Self Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Wall Quotes , Self Quotes