Quotes 581 till 600 of 699.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108 -
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
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To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
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To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
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To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
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To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
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TRUST: I know that you will not - deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously - take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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