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“So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.”

People World Looks Persons Self Enough Action Suffering Results Wonder Example Produce Feds Inaction Famine Calories Irresponsibility Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Lee Strobel

“Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action.”

Thinking Should Self Action Ability Self Esteem Overcoming Self Confidence Esteem Delusion

Author:Shantideva

“THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct an event which you believe you would encounter following the fulfillment of your desire - an event which implies fulfillment of your desire - something which will have the action of Self predominant.”

Knows Want Firsts Believe Self Action Desire Steps Events Following What You Want Objectives Fulfillment Encounters First Steps Constructs

Book:The Neville Goddard Collection

Source: The Neville Goddard Collection

“There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It like the rays from the sun. The Eucharist was the oracle which she consulted, the grace which she followed. But Jesus Christ in His Sacrament lives the same life of love which consumed Him in His mortal days. In His sacramental state He continues to adore His Father by His depthless self-abasement. He is still the Mediator and Interceder with divine goodness for the salvation of men”

“Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the suffering and self-sacrifice which they endured in carrying out those deeds. If their actions were free of suffering or sacrifice, then are they truly deserving of gratitude?”

Ifs Life Feels Self Action Suffering Compassion Sacrifice Gratitude Deeds Impossibility Deserving Self Sacrifice

Author:Derek R. Audette

“To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.”

Self Action Conditions Speech All Things Careful Servant Motive Void Assertion Flawless Self Will

Book:The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice

Source: The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice

“Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.”

Self Action Desire Sacrifice Limitation Rejects You Choose Self Sacrifice

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.”

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.”

Mind Self Action Belief Fit Concepts Patterns Consistent About Yourself Subconscious Subconscious Mind Belief In Self Words And Actions Self Concept

Book:Universal Laws of Success

Source: Universal Laws of Success

“True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.”

Self Action Relation Individuality Separation Flats Repose

Author:Eli Siegel

“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.”

“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.”

People Mean Has Beens Self Light Action Suffering Chance Vision Satisfied Oppressed Self Reliance Reliance Memorial Memorial Day Memorial Day Remembrance Memorial Day Messages

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.”

Self States Action Realizing Talking Doubt Meditation Walking Ego Eating Highest Notion No Doubt Samadhi

Author:Dharma Mittra

“To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.”

World Self Action Actors Realizing Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it.”

Self Enough Action Belief Ability Doubt Childhood Type Response Core Our Family Good Enough Rooted Subconscious Symptoms Not Good Enough Self-doubt Limiting Beliefs Core Beliefs

Author:Lauren Mackler

“I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research”

“Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.”

People Self Enough Action Courses Views Evidence Point Of View Justify Justification Armor Pierce Self Justification

Author:Carol Tavris

“Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.”

Self Action Desire Belief Negative Live Life Taking Action Belief In Self

Author:Joel Brown

“There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.”

Wells Mean War Self Action Form Order Social Duty International Chosen Symbols Fascism Righteous Brutality Blackness Without Hope Self Righteous Tubs Smartness Tinkering

Author:E. M. Forster

“Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.”

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“The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.”

Humans May Made Self Problem Government Action Social Community Self Love Institutions Operations Organize Legislation Social Action

Author:John Quincy Adams

“I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.”

Thinking I Can Self Helping Action Process Awareness Color Gratitude Down And Self Awareness Come Up Memoir Climbs

Author:Koren Zailckas

“Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.”

Men Way Long Self Seems Action Moral Ambition Conscious Resources Rejects Exhausted Recovering Respiration

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.”

“I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take -- one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.”

Thinking Should Self Happens Action Decision Responsibility Assuming Taking Responsibility Never Assume

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the 'imaginary' level of the ego, which is no more than the tip of the iceberg of the human subject known to psychoanalysis. The ego is function or effect of a subject which is always dispersed, never identical with itself, strung out along the chains of the discourses which constitute it.”

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“Every act is an expression of one's self.”

Self Action Expression

Author:Eiji Yoshikawa

“I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.”

Ifs Knows Self Use Action Order Turns Force Wish Responsibility Hell Path Praying Higher Shadow Crosses Destruction Ultimate Know Yourself I Pray Radiant Descent Higher Self Rebuilding

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.”

“To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by the physical brain and the speed of light_ seem like some hopelessly sleepy and plodding event. Our truest, deepest self is completely free. It is not crippled or compromised by past actions or concerned with identity or status. It comprehends that it has no need to fear the earthly world, and therefore, it has no need to build itself up through fame or wealth or conquest.”

Thinking World Needs Self Seems Action Past Wealth Brain Events Identity Fame Ordinary Concerned Aspect Connections Speed Conquest Truest Sleepy Crippled Instantaneous Speed Of Light

Author:Eben Alexander

“Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.”

Self Action Certain Type Concerned Importance Welfare Sense Of Self Self-importance Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Even a good self will create another good self in the next life, and another one, and that good self will never be enlightened. You'll be bound, life after life, by good karma.”

Self Action Next Bounds Karma Enlightened Right Action Self Will Next Life Good Karma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.”

Self Action Honesty Ritual Conventions Right Action

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you develop a self-concept linked to your untapped potential? First, you can decide on the kind of life you would like to lead in ten or fifteen years. This will give you a standard for making decisions about current activities and will reduce the inclination to compare yourself unfavorably to others. Learn to ask, "How would I handle this situation were I the person I hope to become?" And then take action in line with your vision.”

“You have deep within you the power to fulfill your highest vision of your life. To engage this power you must develop a solid personal relationship with yourself. By doing so, you'll tap into a wealth of inner strength that will allow you to take the necessary actions that build confidence and self-esteem. When you learn to stop hiding your power and use fear to your advantage, you'll become less attached to what others want for you and more attached to what you want for yourself. As this shift occurs, you'll naturally begin to lead a more authentic and passionate life.”

Source: Stand Up for Your Life: A Practical Step-by-Step Plan to Build Inner Confidence and Personal Power

“Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.”

Self Action Values Attention Self Esteem Consequence Punishment Esteem Damage Goodwill Nonviolent Communication Intrinsic Value

Author:Marshall Rose

“It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.”

Way Want Self Action Difficult Effort Involved Work Out Surrender Self Will Things Work Out

Book:Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II

Source: Like a Thousand Suns: The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume II

“Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.”

Self Action Awareness Flow Welcome Slow Down

Author:Steven Kotler

“The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.”

Men May Self Action Causes Virtue Bears Self Love Please Vices Motive Distinction Strict Employed Inquiry Incline

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author

“The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.”

Self Action Gone Flower Essence Selfishness Neglect Nobility

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.”

Humans Self Whole Action Human Beings Love Is Class Principles Self Love Genius Sensitive

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.”

Self Action Principles Determination Mere Phrases Self Determination Peril Imperatives Statesmen

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.”

Self Action Strive Merit Incentives Elevation Belittle Emulation

Author:Samuel Johnson

“To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.”

Self Done Seems Action Prayer Powerful Healing Failing Universal Gods Will Appeals Most Powerful Living Things Self Centered Bidding Universal Love Powerful Prayer Love Never Fails

Book:Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

“The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.”

People Ifs Knows Years Self Action Black Know How Picks Disappear Black People Cherries Emergence Affirmative Action Affirmative Year One

Author:Haile Gerima

“Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community.”

Humans Long Two Self Facts Action Community Genius Treated Impulse Feminine Nonviolence Masculine Assertion Indivisible Masculine And Feminine Androgynous

Book:We cannot live without our lives

Source: We cannot live without our lives

“Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.”

Self Action Loses Demand Anger Self Control

Book:Zen in the Martial Arts

Source: Zen in the Martial Arts