Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Passion Quotes, Self Quotes

Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating.

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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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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Self Quotes

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

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My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

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And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

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All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

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Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Self Quotes , Torture Quotes

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Self Quotes , Promise Quotes

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Self Quotes , Rivers Quotes

Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .

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Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

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I've been doing a lot of different cross-training and kickboxing and Capoeira and kite surfing, and I've just really been back to what I consider my original athletic self.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Self Quotes , Athletic Quotes

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

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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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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Art Quotes , Self Quotes

Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance; the insurance company is within: self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness.

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They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Self Quotes , Brave Quotes

Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

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There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

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