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“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.”

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Book:This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

Source: This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

“We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.”

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Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try. . . When your life is governed by the divine nature instead of the self-centered nature you have found inner peace.”

Trying Self Life Is Found Peace Failing Divine Inner Peace Self Centered Divine Nature

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“A Course In Miracles is a constant affirmation that you are created by an unconditional thought of love that appears to have lost itself in a world of fear. Freedom, joy and peace of mind are yours again, when you remember and re-connect to your unconditional self.”

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Book:Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast

Source: Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast

“The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.”

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Author:Vaclav Havel

“In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens.”

“It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits.”

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Book:The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

“Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the restless, noisy spirit of the day, and encourage to speech the soft voices within you that timidly whisper of the peace of the quiet night; and occasionally look out at the quiet stars. The night will soothe you like a tender mother, folding you against her soft bosom, and hiding you from the harm of the world.”

World Looks Stills Self Spirit Lying Mother Night Stars Peace Voice Sleep Forget Quiet Speech Harm Hiding Nurse Within You Restless Bosoms You Again Noisy Folding

Author:Max Ehrmann

“In order to move our self image higher on the spectrum of performance, we must specifically attack our self-talking and our self-thinking? By using constructive imagination - the eye of faith - we can change our self image.”

Thinking Self Eye Moving Order Peace Imagination Talking Higher Performances Spectrum Constructive

Author:Hyrum W. Smith

“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.”

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

“Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.”

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Author:George Orwell

“The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.”

Love Needs Soul Self Spiritual Peace Goal Practice Forgiveness Recovery Spiritual Wisdom Sense Of Self Spiritual Practice Spiritual Healing Get Well Fracture Life Altering

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

Source: Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)

“But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.”

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Author:Wayne Dyer

“Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.”

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Author:John Ortberg

“Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.”

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Book:As A Man Thinketh And The Path Of Prosperity

Source: As A Man Thinketh And The Path Of Prosperity

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land.”

“A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.”

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Book:Barbara C. Jordan--selected Speeches

Source: Barbara C. Jordan--selected Speeches

“The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.”

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Author:Ralph Bunche

“It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.”

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Author:Bernhard Haring

“Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed . . . I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.”

“What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.”

People Self Peace Can Do Tree Self Improvement Improvement Symbols

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us. No need to wait. As we care enough to take risks, we loosen the grip of ego and begin to come home to our true nature.”

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Author:Joanna Macy