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  • The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Self Quotes , Practice Quotes
  • These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Reality Quotes , Self Quotes
  • So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Self Quotes
  • When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Good Life Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Eye Quotes , Self Quotes
  • The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes