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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.
Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
how to divide ourselves fairly between ourselves and the rest of the world is the hardest question we ever have to answer.
Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.
Unbinding the Heart means to really look at the areas in our lives where we withhold our own love from our self and others.
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.
All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.
Self-awareness can't be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we are.
To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.
The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.
I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.
...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not.
There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.
Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented.
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.
And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)