Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.

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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Self Quotes , Wild Imagination Quotes

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

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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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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Self Quotes , Foundation Quotes

Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

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The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.

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Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

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Self appointed expectations lead to self induced frustrations.

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Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

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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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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream. You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.

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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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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

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Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

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

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Self Quotes , Pygmalion Quotes