Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes, Independent Quotes, Self Quotes

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

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If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

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I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

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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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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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The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die.

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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

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As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.

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So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.

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Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'

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The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought.

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What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

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The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

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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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The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

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Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.

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