Quotes 381 till 400 of 769.
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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
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No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.
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No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
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Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
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Of course not, she agreed, You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
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Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation
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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
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One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
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