Dalai Lama Quotes, Self Quotes, Focus Quotes

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be

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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 activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

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

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Self Quotes , Literature Quotes

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Land Quotes

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Self Quotes , Weapons Quotes

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Self Quotes , Way Quotes

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

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There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

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The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

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When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless.

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

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Self Quotes , Government Quotes

We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Hate Quotes , Self Quotes

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

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

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

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Tags : A. J. Liebling Quotes , Writing Quotes , Self Quotes

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

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He who conquers self conquers all.

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A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Self Quotes , Stubborn Quotes

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Truth Quotes , Self Quotes