William Shakespeare Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Self Quotes

Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.

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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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Tags : Horace Quotes , Self Quotes , Vanity 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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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Self Quotes , Focus Quotes

In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

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'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

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Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Defense Quotes

He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not enlightened. He who is self-righteous is not respected. He who boasts achieves nothing. He who brags will not endure. According to followers of the Tao, "These are extra food and unnecessary luggage." They do not bring happiness, therefore followers of the Tao avoid them.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Self Quotes , Pace Quotes

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

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I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

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Tags : Alan Bradley Quotes , Self Quotes , Two Quotes

Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and narrow view of our self interest and do not adequately weight the price that has to be paid on the other side for any of these measures we are promoting.

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Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

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You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Civilization Quotes

I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Self Quotes , Way Quotes

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Self Quotes

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

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Tags : Al Roker Quotes , Bad Day Quotes , Self Quotes

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

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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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Tags : Alan Bullock Quotes , Determination 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

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Self Quotes , Nevertheless Quotes