Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Self Quotes, Soul Quotes

I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own 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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We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

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Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

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The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

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For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi.

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Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

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The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

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Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

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[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. ... The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.

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A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

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Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

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Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

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I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.

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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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