Adrienne Rich Quotes, Self Quotes, Numbness Quotes

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

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The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

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There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

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Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

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When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

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

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Self Quotes , Sick Quotes

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Games Quotes

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Self Quotes , Soul 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.

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Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

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For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

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

To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.

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Tags : Adi Shankara Quotes , Wise Quotes , Self Quotes

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Self Quotes , Dumb Quotes

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

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

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When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

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Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Self Quotes , Joy Quotes

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

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