Alice Walker Quotes, Men Quotes, Self Quotes

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me.

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Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

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Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

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Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

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A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

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Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

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Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

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I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

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There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.

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but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!

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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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If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

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Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking.

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Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

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

Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.

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

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