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One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.
As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.
When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.
Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance
Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.
Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.
God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible for you.
I believe you can have a much better life if you are true to your core self, and therefore guided by love and intuitive inner knowing.
Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.
People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.
Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
It seems to me self-evident that it is worthwhile to understand the best thoughts of the past, to appropriate them, to criticize them.
Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.
The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.
Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
When we begin to know ourselves in an open and self-supportive way, we take the first step to encourage our children to know themselves
Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.
I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self.
The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.
Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since