Mark Twain Quotes, Truth Quotes, Self Quotes

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes

I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.

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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

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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

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

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Tags : Adi Da Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Self Quotes

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Writing Quotes , Self Quotes

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Self Quotes , Best Self Quotes

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , New York Quotes , Self Quotes

In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Air Quotes , Self Quotes

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Self Quotes , Ruins Quotes

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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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.

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Tags : Abigail Solomon-Godeau Quotes , Photography Quotes , Self Quotes

But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Self Quotes , Growth Quotes

The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

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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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Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Independent Quotes , Self Quotes

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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