A. J. Jacobs Quotes, Self Quotes, Improvement Quotes

I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

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Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.

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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.

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Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Self Quotes

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

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could.

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Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

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Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

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Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

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The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Self Quotes , Imagination Quotes

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

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 we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.

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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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It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

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I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

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I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

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Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Self Quotes , Discipline Quotes