Dalai Lama Quotes, Past Quotes, Self Quotes

In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

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Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Self Quotes , Tasks Quotes

Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.

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When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

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Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

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There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

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Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.

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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

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

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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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Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

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The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

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Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining another. This acquisitive movement is called expansion of thought, progress.

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