Alan Valentine Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.

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what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness

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

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

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I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

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The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

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

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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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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A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*

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If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Determination Quotes , Self Quotes

He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love

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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

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Tags : A. E. van Vogt Quotes , Self Quotes , Stories Quotes

The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Self Quotes , Mind Quotes

I am so glad people have started making films n martial arts and self-defense, which is actually the need of the hour.

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Tags : Akshay Kumar Quotes , Art Quotes , Self Quotes

It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

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

In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Self Quotes , Ignorant Quotes

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

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

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Self Quotes , Helping 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