Khalil Gibran Quotes, Self Quotes, Foundation Quotes

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

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Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Self Quotes , Promise Quotes

It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Belief Quotes

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

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With self-discipline, all things are possible

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Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

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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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Know thy enemy and know thy self and you will win a hundred battles.

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Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Dream Quotes , Self Quotes

Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.

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And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Realizing 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

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Self Quotes , Harmony Quotes

It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression .

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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Examination Quotes

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.

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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Self Quotes , May Quotes