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“Revolution is only truly revolution if it is a continuous struggle-not just an external struggle against an enemy, but an inner struggle, fighting and subduing all negative aspects which hinder or do damage to the course of the revolution. In this light, revolution is ... a mighty symphony of victory over the enemy and over oneself.”

Ifs Light Fighting Courses Enemy Struggle Revolution Victory Negative Aspect Oneself Damage Symphony Hinder Inner Struggle

Author:Sukarno

“I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.”

Thinking Ideas Found Enjoy Difficult Forget Stupid Duty Oneself

Author:Terry Eagleton

“It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.”

Mind Looks States Masters Oneself Copies State Of Mind Liberated Copying

Author:Nathalie Sarraute

“To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.”

Done Sin Bears Perfection Mark Patience Oneself Imperfection Be Patient

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.”

Matter Film Seeing Mirrors Clean Oneself Compensation Clean Shaven

Author:Billy Gibbons

“Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.”

“Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.”

Way Persons Found Teach Oneself

Author:Eduardo Chillida

“To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.”

Believe Lying Oneself

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.”

Humans Philosophy School Spirit Common Cases Taught Oneself Pursuit Human Spirit Pursuit Of Happiness Common Good Aberration

Book:Eyes of democracy

Source: Eyes of democracy

“The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.”

Writing Doe Real Stories Remember Alive Dying Oneself Daily Life Confession Journal Memorial

Book:The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays

Source: The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays

“To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.”

School Awareness Enlightenment Oneself Relate Enlightened

Book:Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations

Source: Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations

“The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.”

May Imagine Health Healthy Ideals Oneself Aspire Possessing

Book:The Volcano Lover

Source: The Volcano Lover

“Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.”

Source: After Virtue

“As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.”

Life Art Whole Form Passion Failing Oneself

Book:The Volcano Lover

Source: The Volcano Lover

“Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction between the harm caused by external causes out of the individual's control and that caused by oneself. Lifestyle risk discourse overturns the notion that health hazards in postindustrial society are out of the individual's control. On the contrary, the dominant theme of lifestyle risk discourse is the responsibility of the individual to avoid health risks for the sake of his or her own health as well as the greater good of society.”

“To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.”

Firsts Names Poet Oneself Revolutionary

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

“If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.”

Ifs Way Certain Individual Type Negative Oneself Hearing Noise Accurate Sellers Reinforcement Cacophony

Author:James Chanos

“I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.”

Ifs Believe Looks Culture I Believe Behinds Movement Tradition Profound Oneself Indispensable

Author:Robert Delaunay

“The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.”

Way Political Virtue Path Position Harder Oneself Arguing Honorable Vigorous

Author:Jon Meacham

“One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.”

Moments Light Happiness Life Is Joy Accepting Messages Oneself Burden Disappear Sheer Festivals Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem Accepting Yourself Sheer Joy

Author:Rajneesh

“One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.”

Pain Effort Trouble Oneself

Book:Guesses at Truth

Source: Guesses at Truth

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