Alice Walker Quotes, Light Quotes, Self Quotes

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

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There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , Self Quotes

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

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Tags : Alan Bradley Quotes , Self Quotes , Two Quotes

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Respect Quotes , Self Quotes

What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Errors Quotes , Self Quotes

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Truth Quotes , Self Quotes

Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Self Quotes

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Self Quotes

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Self Quotes , Long Quotes

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.

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In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Self Quotes

...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Rights Quotes , Self Quotes

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Self Quotes , Why Not Quotes

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

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

Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Self Quotes , People Quotes

Circumstances which we have resented, situations which we have found desperately difficult, have all been the means in the hands of God of driving the nails into the self-life which so easily complains.

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Tags : Alan Redpath Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes

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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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Self Quotes , Space Quotes

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , People Quotes