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"The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy."
"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."
"Truth will never come into our minds so long as there will remain the faintest shadow of Ahamkâra (egotism). All of you should try to root out this devil from your heart. Complete self-surrender is the only way to spiritual illumination."
"When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage."
"To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life."
"If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything."
"Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly."
"Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace."
"The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all."
"Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed."
"Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own —” “That’s enough, Phineas,” said Dumbledore."
"The self is a dance, constantly in motion."
"She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible."
"There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless."
"To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof over their heads - is changing the mind-set and educating people. And most of all, most important, is empowering people and making them self-sustaining."
"The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all."
"The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death."
"My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible."
"The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization."
"Those who are self-righteous are not prominent."
