T. S. Eliot Quotes, Errors Quotes, Self 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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One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

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It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

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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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Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

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The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

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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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I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

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All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.

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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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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

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

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

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You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

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Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Self Quotes , Punishment Quotes

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

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

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

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

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Toil Quotes

The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

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