Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Self Quotes, Hands 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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Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

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All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.

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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.

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The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

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Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

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When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

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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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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

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With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.

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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

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I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

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Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

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There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

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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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The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self.

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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

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America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.

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