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When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.
You're re-accessing your natural energy, your natural information, your knowledge of yourself, of your sacred self.
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
I'm definitely happy by my self, you know what I mean. The money is better. But you know, I'd just rather be alone.
Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.
Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.
Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma.
A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.
Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct.
In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker.
It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.
Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.
Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid.
There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.
No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.
The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.
Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.
Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.
I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.
There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.
Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.
Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.