Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Prayer Quotes, Self Quotes

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

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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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When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

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Tags : Abdullah Ibrahim Quotes , Self Quotes , Space Quotes

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

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Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

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The "ego" like its correlative "non-ego", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Real Quotes , Self Quotes

The supramental transformation, the supramental evolution must carry with it a lifting of mind, life and body out of themselves into a greater way of being in which yet their own ways and powers would be, not suppressed or abolished, but perfected and fulfilled by the self-exceeding.

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Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so.

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Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values

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

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

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Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Self Quotes , Envy Quotes

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

Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

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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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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Self Quotes , Looks Quotes

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Self Quotes

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

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There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Loneliness Quotes , Self Quotes