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I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

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

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Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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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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If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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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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This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

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Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.

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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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Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

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Self-command is the main elegance.

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

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Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

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At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

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When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

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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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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

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