Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Self Quotes, Would Be Quotes

Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

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What sex gives you momentarily is the total abandonment of yourself, then you are back again with your turmoil, so you want a repetition over and over again of that state in which there is no worry, no problem, no self.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Sex Quotes , Self Quotes

Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

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The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Heart Quotes , Self Quotes

By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Self Quotes , Imagination Quotes

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

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my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Home Quotes , Self Quotes

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

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Tags : A.L. Kennedy Quotes , Writing Quotes , Self Quotes

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

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To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

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It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

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

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

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