Aristotle Quotes, Government Quotes, Self Quotes

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

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Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.

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Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

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The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Self Quotes , Meditation Quotes

You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

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Tags : Alan Palomo Quotes , Color Quotes , Self Quotes

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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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Self Quotes , House Quotes

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

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

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

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Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

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The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self.

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When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared

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Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.

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We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Moving Quotes , Self Quotes

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes

Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Self Quotes

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Self Quotes , Twins Quotes

Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Animal Quotes , Self Quotes

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

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