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“Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.”

Ifs Humans Self Order Justice Moral Demand Righteousness Constructs Precarious Self Righteousness Guillotine

Book:Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

Source: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

“I monitor my self-talk, making sure that it is uplifting and supportive of myself and others.”

Self Uplifting Supportive Self Talk

Author:Louise Hay

“All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.”

Self Violence Self Esteem Shame Esteem

Author:James Gilligan

“Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.”

People World Wells Littles Self Care Nice Air Huge Cups Radical Tea Atmosphere Quantum Self Care Fresh Air Cups Of Tea Mona Lisa

Author:Anne Lamott

“This is a message to all those out there who think that you need animal products to be fit and strong. Almost two years after becoming vegan I am stronger than ever before and I am still improving day by day. Don't listen to those self proclaimed nutrition gurus and the supplement industry trying to tell you that you need meat, eggs and dairy to get enough protein. There are plenty of plant-based protein sources and your body is going to thank you for stopping feeding it with dead-food. Go vegan and feel the power!”

“The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.”

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original film was. Even if Part II were a lot more cohesive, revealing and exciting than it is, it probably would have run the risk of appearing to be the self-parody it now seems…Its insights are fairly lame at this point.”

Ifs Self Seems Running Film Risk Exciting Originals Insight Remarkable Recalls Revealing Appearing Lame Parody

Author:Vincent Canby

“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

“So, here we are - all part of this great hologram called Creation, which is everybody else's SELF.It's all a cosmic play, and there is nothing but you!”

Self Play Creation Cosmic Holograms

Author:Itzhak Bentov

“I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.”

Ifs World Believe Heart Long I Can Self Pain Fall Felt Grace Pride Self Love My Heart Absence Unconscious Affected Protected Unbelief God's Presence

Author:Christian Wiman

“Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism cannot exist except in relation to the highest authority. No inner discipline can operate without a charismatic institution, nor can such an institution survive without that supreme authority from a relation to whom self-confidence derives. Without an authority deeply installed, there is no foundation for individuality. Self-confidence thus expresses submission to supreme authority.”

Self Order Discipline Authority Highest Relation Institutions Foundation Individuality Self Confidence Supreme Individualism Submission Inseparable Charismatic

Author:Philip Rieff

“We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account. Co-operation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.”

Needs Kind Self Interest Rooms Wise Trust Concern Accounts Driven Genuine Operations Generous Cheating Bullying Exploitation Self Interest Concern For Others

Author:Dalai Lama

“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

“Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.”

“Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.”

Stills Self Today America Economic Crisis Posts Reports

Author:Mohamed El-Erian

“There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others.”

Self Four Critical Ties Collaboration Bows Representation Pillars Bow Tie

Author:Dhani Jones

“If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."”

Ifs Writing Believe Self Like You Letters If I Could Teenage

Author:Antony Sher

“The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.”

Self Interest Principles Feet Now And Then Self Interest Robes

Book:The Provost: And Other Tales

Source: The Provost: And Other Tales

“Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.”

Needs Self Authority Self Control Veins

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.”

Self Father Ability Clear Son Judgment Conscience Critics Ease Motive Self Control Discernment Good Judgment Clear Conscience

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.”

People Long Self Care Form Habit Don't Care

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.”

Self Spirituality Results Violence Worship Extremes Narcissism Loathing Self Loathing

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.”

Men Self Individual Felt Black Hurt Church White Humility Broken Members Sick Critics Authenticity Supposed To Be Ran Hypocrisy Righteousness Hospitals Black And White Versus

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.”

People Mean Different Self Enough Might Sides Cases Benefits Contradiction Open Mindedness Bigots

Author:Criss Jami

“The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear that leads to self-sacrifice and the kind of fear where you would truly jump in front of a bus to save another.”

Kind Self Sacrifice Fronts Harm Bus Loved Ones Honorable Desirable Self Sacrifice

Book:Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.”

Thinking Want Self Fighting Forever Sacrifice Conflict Steady Selflessness Self Sacrifice

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.”

Men Mean Doe Self Behinds Attitude Knowing Virtue Fashion Judging Circumstances Judgment Likes Command Hypocrisy One Man Righteous Spoiled Exaggerated Judgmental Mental Attitude Self Righteous

Author:Criss Jami

“To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love.”

Self Lying Father Jesus Identity Claims Core Unconditional Love Dependence Unconditional Estrangement

Author:Terry Eagleton

“All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.”

Ifs World Want Children Self Play Feelings Self Esteem Building Projects Creating Capacity Structure Enormous Esteem Internals

Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce

“Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.”

Self Levels Performances Dominant

Author:Jack Canfield

“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”

Ifs Self Race Confidence Defeat Self Confidence Defeated Have Confidence Confidence Boosting No Confidence Jamaicans Confidence And Courage Inspirational Confidence Already Won Supreme Confidence

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.”

Has Beens Self Protective Fear Of The Unknown

Author:Erin O'Connor

“The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.”

Thinking Men Needs Doe Self Wish He Man Mass Conscience Cease

Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

“When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.”

Giving Self Christian Belief Clear Morality Giving Up Oneself Spite Latter Again And Again Evident Christian Morality

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.”

Children Soul Self Expression Shapes Myth Greek Poetic Self Expression

Author:Hermann Hesse

“I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.”

“There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.”

Ifs Writing Book Self Jobs Easy Internet Discipline Down And Hanging Out Mail Subconscious Employed Surfing Surfing The Internet Hanging Out With Friends

Author:Charles de Lint

“The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it.”

Knows Should Littles Doe Has Beens Made Book Real Self Reason Character Stories Hands Might Faces Fun Reader Picks Familiar Factors Spots Titles Referencing Familiar Faces Book Titles

Author:Charles de Lint

“By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.”

Self Self Knowledge

Author:Charles de Lint

“Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.”

Men Self Recovery Valor

Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.”

Littles Self Seems Happens Technology Magic Things Happen Command Consumers Analysis Closest Buttons Fired Up Self Analysis

Author:David Pogue

“More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.”

Ifs Men May Self Character Hours Quality Influence Example Position He Man Masters Exercise Disregard

Author:Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

“First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Doe Has Beens Self Facts Reality Might Truth Faces Dies Wish Deals Cities Refuse Deception Might Have Been Slogans Self Deception

Author:John F. Kennedy

“One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.”

Has Beens Self Goal Educated Vanity Self Education

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self.”

Kind Self Indifference

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.”

Two Self Might Class Middle Talent Mets Late West Middle Class Typical Plague Dinosaurs Gloomy Unicorn Announcing Pests Tacky

Author:Wilfrid Sheed

“Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.”

World Stills Soul Self Joy Turns Found Dark Teach Singing Worthy Singers Aspiration Revelations Tranquil

Book:Undertones

Source: Undertones

“That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!”

Self Stars Known Mountain Shadow Stones Surface Naked Thrown Smooth Daisies

Author:William Wordsworth

“A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England

“Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.”

World Should Heart Self Fighting Ideals Fulfillment Fixed Bliss Knives Butterfly Never Quit Pins Melville Morgana

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

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