Dalai Lama Quotes, Self Quotes, Focus Quotes

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others.

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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

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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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When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Self Quotes , Endeavor 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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Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

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Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

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It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

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It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

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Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control.

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To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

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When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.

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I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

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For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

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I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

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The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

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