Quotes 361 till 380 of 707.
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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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One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
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Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
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Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
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Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
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Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4 -
People don't want to be understood, I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left.
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971) -
People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
Doom and glory of knowing who you are -
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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