Lewis Carroll Quotes, Self Quotes, Identity Quotes

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

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Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Self Quotes , Long Quotes

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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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Drinking Quotes , Self Quotes

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Self Quotes , Care Quotes

There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Simple Quotes , Self Quotes

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

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

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Self 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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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Self Quotes , Meditation Quotes

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

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Tags : Alan Bullock Quotes , Determination Quotes , Self Quotes

Love is a state of being, and in that state, the 'me', with its identifications, anxieties, and possessions is absent. Love cannot be, as long as the activities of the self, of the 'me', whether conscious or unconscious, continue to exist.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Love Is Quotes , Self Quotes

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , New York Quotes , Self Quotes

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Truth Quotes , Self Quotes

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Time Quotes , Self Quotes

The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Self Quotes , Choices Quotes

Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and narrow view of our self interest and do not adequately weight the price that has to be paid on the other side for any of these measures we are promoting.

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Tags : Alan Borovoy Quotes , Self Quotes , Views Quotes

This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Self Quotes , Practice Quotes

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

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Self Quotes

If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly.

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Tags : Al Roker Quotes , Bad Day Quotes , Self Quotes

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Taken Quotes , Self Quotes