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I don't want to point out her flaws, but if I see her going on a self-destructive path, isn't it up to me as her friend to stop her?
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.
There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.
None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.
But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.
I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.
When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.
Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive.
We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.
I paint in oils, I paint in acrylics. I paint figurative and landscape portraits. It's all in my own kind of style. I'm self-taught.
You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.
The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.
Looking and seeing do not originate in your self. You are able to look in your self because looking and seeing are before your self.
Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke.
I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.
Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.
All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.
And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .
To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.
It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.
I do not have a genetically "gifted" body. I have to work hard everyday and I am always working on maintaining a positive self image.
Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.
A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life.
Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.
By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.
Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.
I don't want to be in my 'interview zone' mode. I've been doing a lot of interviews and I'm very self-aware of how I'm coming across.
Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.