Alice Walker Quotes, Unique Quotes, Self Quotes

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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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

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A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

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Then ego goes on growing, because the society needs you as an ego, not as a Self. The Self is irrelevant for the society; your periphery is meaningful. And there are many problems. The ego can be taught and the ego can be made docile and the ego can be forced to be obedient. The ego can be made to adjust, but not the Self. The Self cannot be taught, the Self cannot be forced. The Self is intrinsically rebellious, individual. It cannot be made a part of society.

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Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just

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I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

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To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.

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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.

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A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

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Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

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

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Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

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The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

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Hayatın birliğini tecrübe eden kişi bütün canlıları kendinde, kendini de bütün canlılarda görür ve herşeye tarafsız bir gözle bakar. / He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

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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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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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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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"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest your Self in a high degree.

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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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