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The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
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The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.
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The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184 -
There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
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There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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There is a syndrome in sports called ''paralysis by analysis.''
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