George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Self Quotes, Denial Quotes

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

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

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If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self.

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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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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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Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.

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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

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My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

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There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

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

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Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

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The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

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Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work.

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Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

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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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The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.

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Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

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Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act of bravery far better than cowardly submission. The latter befits neither man nor woman. Under violence, there are many stages and varieties of bravery. Every man must judge this for himself. No other person can or has the right.

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