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Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.
The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.
There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.
This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.
[Peace in Syria] is [António Guterres] priority, and of course it's our priority, that's self-evident.
The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.
The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self. It knows how to choose and to divine.
Never utter a word if it is not from your navel point and it doesn't confirm your regal, highest self.
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.
You can never separate yourself from who you are. You bring your whole self to everything that you do.
It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.
God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.
I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.
As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.
American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.
We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing!
A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.
Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?
Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.
Becoming a culturally intelligent innovators starts with something as basic as exercising self-control.
Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.
I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.
The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.
If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.
Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.
It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.
Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance
Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.
My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice.
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others
Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.