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In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.
Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
'Metals' has partly been about me regaining my self respect and I feel like I'm growing the muscles I want to grow again.
You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.
Our grocery store now has self-checkout, for your convenience. It's like getting punched in the throat, for your comfort.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.
What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?
Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them.
To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on
Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.
I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.
There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self.
It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.
It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.
Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.
Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.
All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.
It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.
Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.