Best movement & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.”

“In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.”

Way Self Play Sports Perfect Movement Health Buddhism Discipline Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are many paths through the Ring of Life. They are a constant movement toward self-fulfillment through growth of your mind, expansion of your experiences, widening of your senses and growing your spirit. It's ceaseless and constant throughout one's life.”

Mind Self Spirit Growth Path Growing Movement Travel Constant Rings Senses Fulfillment Expansion Self Fulfillment Many Paths

Author:Frosty Wooldridge

“The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.”

Self Moments Form Individual Movement Ignorance Bounds Wave Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.”

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

“Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.”

Self Spirit Movement Recognition Primaries Contemplation Creativeness Self Recognition

Author:Paul Twitchell

“Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.”

Men Self Movement Self Control Virginity

Book:The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

“I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.”

I Can Self Movement Hatred Ignorant Celebration Never Quit Sinister Columbus Self Hatred Stasis

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.”

People Men Self Form Found Wise Fashion Movement He Man Strive Foolish Genuine Reform Fringe Fanatics Lunatic Reform Movements

Book:The Rough Riders: An Autobiography

Source: The Rough Riders: An Autobiography

“What is it that is done to our children that their puberty should deform them? They have the joy of movement; they have an enterprising curiosity; they are ready for sensible self-denial; they dream ahead, and they have a faithful memory, and, above all, great compassion... The well-meaning educator who flatters and humours the young not only does a disservice to the community, but also damages the individual by depriving him of the opportunities of self-discovery.”

“Once the idea of a supernaturalistic creation is fully overcome, the idea returns that the universe must be self-organizing and therefore composed of self-moving parts. Also, insofar as dualistic assumptions are fully overcome and human experience is accepted as fully natural, it begins to seem probable that something analogous to our experience and self-movement is a feature of every level of nature.”

Humans Ideas Self Seems Moving Universe Natural Levels Movement Creation Return Overcoming Accepted Features Assumption Human Experience Moving Parts

Book:God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology

Source: God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology

“I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.”

Ifs Looks Made Self School Lying Found Hours Meditation Movement Oneness Can Not Congratulations Naps Nursery Lapses Nursery School

Author:Fay Weldon

“Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.”

Source: The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues

“The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.”

Self Lying Movement Labor Defense Self Defense Labor Movement

Book:A Short History of the American Labor Movement

Source: A Short History of the American Labor Movement

“for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.”

Self Political Social Feminism Movement Tools Possession Obligation Reform Regulation Social Reform Self Regulation Political Movements

Book:Essays in feminism

Source: Essays in feminism

“The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is unlikely the way they're approaching it, they're going to find that enlightenment is very pleasurable.”

Ifs Way Self Bigs Strong Pleasure Movement Buddhism News Enlightenment Discovery Self Discovery Very Strong Unlikely Big News

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.”

Self Evil Movement Roots Criticism Breaths Self Criticism

Book:The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

Source: The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

“The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.”

Self Spiritual Grace Movement Gratitude Madness Awakening Obsessed Packages Spiritual Awakening Self Obsessed

Book:Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Source: Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

“What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movementin the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.”

Firsts Humans Self Political Powerful Self Esteem Movement Son Instinct Feminist Motherhood Esteem My Son Activist Recognizing Deliberate Junk Assertion Housewife Stunned

Author:Mary Blakely

“In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.”

Mind Heart Self Form Movement Direct Shining Deeper Sole Restraint Thyself Plunge Brahman

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it - because being on the Internet is okay, but it takes a long time. I have a prediction that at some point, there will be a backlash. Like at the end of the '60s, there was that back-to-the-land movement, and I'm guessing that people will start consciously saying, "I'm not taking the phone with me," or "I'm only checking email x number of times a day," or "I'm not ever gonna self-Google," for example.”

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Author:George Saunders

“Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their self-awareness of their power to transform. Liberation movements are a fuller development of the cosmos's sense of harmony, balance, justice, and celebration. This is why true spiritual liberation demands rituals of cosmic celebrating and healing, which will in turn culminate in personal transformation and liberation.”

“Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq.”

Real Self Poor Leader Movement Mass Percent Iraq Population Shia

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“The assumption that the egoless condition, or union of self and God, is man's final goal and ultimate destiny is a great mistake. My purpose here is to affirm that the unitive state is a hidden path in itself, a movement in its own right that ultimately leads to no-self (no true-self and no-union). In short, the unitive state is the hidden path to no-self.”

Men Self States Purpose Goal Mistake Destiny Path Conditions Movement Ultimate Unions Finals Assumption True Self Great Mistakes

Book:The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center

Source: The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center

“Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life, I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough; in fact , I may never get over the silence on the part of writers who say nothing about this second movement.”

Source: Experience of No-Self, The: A Contemplative Journey, Revised Edition

“The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves.”

Soul Self Body Natural Creative Greater Movement Manifestation Dancer Luminous

Author:Isadora Duncan

“I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.”

Thinking Want Self Whole Stories Literature Darkness Movement Destruction Misery Instinct Self Destruction Goth Sorrowful

Author:John Cusack

“Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.”

People Thinking Important Self Movement Features Self Respect

Author:Toni Morrison

“So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.”

Book Self Reason Felt Lines Movement

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.”

Self Movement Flow Bubbles Subjective Tunnels Phenomenal Embedded

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“Buddhism doesn't really have much time for political mass-movements. We are so trained to think of politics in terms of acting collectively, acting as part of mass-movements, that it's become hard for us to imagine a form of politics that is based on a high degree of introspection and self-examination.”

Thinking Self Hard Form Political Term Acting Imagine Movement Buddhism Degrees Mass Introspection Examination Self-examination

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training (acting, movement, dance, piano, singing, etc) allowed me to hone my skills and find an inner space of self-generating creativity.”

Way Self Space Acting Creativity Movement Mets Skills Singing Training Glad Piano Great Men Etc Mentor Lifelong Collaborators Lifelong Friends

Author:Jade Hassoune

“The women's movement resurgence of standing up for so many things that were kind of sleepy there for a decade or so, there's been a reawakening and I think the consciousness movement in general is dovetailing with a lot of recovery and self-empowerment.”

Thinking Kind Self Consciousness Movement Empowerment Standing Decades Recovery Self Empowerment Sleepy Resurgence

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee if you apply on a diversity basis, because they'd be so shocked to see somebody from a different background wanting to be a part of the green movement.”

Ifs Needs Different Self Might Black Movement Diversity Bases Green Folks Backgrounds Shocked Conferences Fees Different Backgrounds Green Movement

Author:Van Jones

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