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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people
Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
I think the industry can probably self-correct without regulation, but I don't believe an individual outlet can regulate itself.
She couldn’t very well let him join her in bed like that. Sure you could. No I can’t. Please? Hush, self, let me think.’ (Grace)
To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.
Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.
What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.
By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.
I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.
I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.
Your self doesn't represent the truth in you, your being does. Give your ease only to what you know represents the truth in you.
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write.
I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.
Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you
You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.
Muslims cannot be defeated by others. We Muslims are not defeated by our enemies, but instead, we are defeated by our own selves.
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.
I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.
Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.
You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.
Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.
Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.
I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.
Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.
We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.
In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.
Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.
Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection
Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.
There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.