Al Franken Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Self Quotes

There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.

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A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

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Abortion is an act of self-defense.

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In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

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His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

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Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .

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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

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There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

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

You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

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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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Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Mind Quotes

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

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Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

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A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

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Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.

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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

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The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

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