F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Self Quotes, Brave Quotes

They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

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Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Tasks Quotes

What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?

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

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Self Quotes

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Museums Quotes , Self Quotes

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Self Quotes

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Evil Quotes

Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.

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

Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

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

Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Scripture Quotes

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

Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Mother Quotes , Self Quotes

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears inevitably follow transgression. Men, take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

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

The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Games 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