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“You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.”

Self Moments Happiness Joy Enjoy Accepting Taken Buddhism Completion Accepting Yourself Enjoy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.”

Giving Self Happiness Easy Buddhism Self Giving

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.”

World Mind Stills Self Happiness Desire Loses Buddhism Involved Stillness Centering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“You can hit a home run. If you are honest, you'll know when it's perfect because at that critical moment of connection, there was no sense of being there. That is perfect play. There is no self involved.”

Ifs Knows Self Play Moments Home Running Perfect Honest Health Buddhism Involved Connections Critical Being There Athletics Home Run Critical Moments

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself taking place, perfect fluid motion.”

Self Play Perfect Health Buddhism Emptiness Fluid Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.”

Ifs Mind Self Play Sports Player Health Buddhism Participation Sense Of Self Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.”

Mind Self Path Health Buddhism Letting Go Ego Interfere Sense Of Self Athletics Frisbee

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.”

Way Mind Art Self Body Artist Fighting Winning Emotion Situation Health Buddhism Art Is Martial Arts Combat Mastery Self Mastery Athletics Mind Body Martial Artist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.”

Ifs Kind Said Important Self School Education Opinion Millions Self Esteem Students Ignorance Ignorant Esteem Promoting Depriving

Author:Thomas Sowell

“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”

People Self Talking Subjects Treats Reproach

Author:Anatole France

“Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.”

Source: Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Stills Self Bigs Remember Memories Wind Reader Findings Our Family Theme Vivid Incidents Our Memories Saga Self Contained

Book:Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

Source: Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.”

Thinking Needs Writing Persons Self Would Be Walks Fiction Ignorance Equal Tradition Tasks Lifetime Library Average Genuine Genre Novelists Arrogance Bookstores Average Person Hubris

Author:Laura Lippman

“Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.”

Ifs Writing Mind Self Used Turns Evil Chance Stupid Beats Criticize Stamps Indulge Inadequate Indulge In Epithet

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.”

Self Consciousness Stride Self Consciousness

Author:Joshua Leonard

“It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.”

Years Humans Has Beens Self Facts Values Left Views Taken Determination Dignity Independence Individuality British Attributes Self Determination Human Dignity British Politics

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.”

Ifs Life Giving Looks Self Use Reality Beautiful Success Behinds Fronts Example Huge Misery Vanity Hiding Behind You Self Absorbed Peacock

Author:Pope Francis

“If you copy then it is not self-expression.”

Ifs Self Expression Copies Self Expression

Author:Michael Schenker

“Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.”

People Needs Art Book Self Might Choices Winning Energy Social Easy Views Media Social Media Self Worth Likes Followers Venture

Author:Neil Strauss

“Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.”

Should Self Use Interest Technology Support Involved Clean Enlightened Capture Carbon Self Interest Defence Enabling Storage Crank Hydrocarbons

Author:Nicholas Stern

“All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?”

Writing Doe Self Novel Lists Exploration Groceries Grocery Lists

Author:Steven Saylor

“The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?”

Ifs Stills Real Self Today Fiction Car Elements Normal Standards Hollywood Science Fiction Driving Real Life What If Defining 1960s Knights Riders Science Fiction Movie Driving Cars

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.”

World Trying Has Beens Self Reality Turns Fiction Class Team Car Science Fiction Spending Driving Engineers Google World Class Professional Life Driving Cars

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking.”

Needs Looks Self Done Car Spread Driving Suburbs Parking Driving Cars

Author:Sebastian Thrun

“But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.”

Self Winning Successful Patient Crowds Guilty Destructive Investors Be Patient Self Destructive

Author:Andrew Tobias

“I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.”

People Thinking Self Running Ability Successful Focus Taught Thread Successful People Self Taught

Author:Fred L. Turner

“To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.”

Self Degrees

Author:Rod Taylor

“The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.”

Self Enemy Clear Righteousness Self Righteousness

Book:It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News

Source: It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News

“I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.”

Thinking Self Casts Younger Self

Author:James Franco

“We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.”

Long Self Nations Weapons Gun Tradition Defense Convinced Combat Heritage Hunting Ownership Self Defense Recreation Colorado Gun Ownership Outdoor Recreation

Author:Mark Udall

“Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.”

Looks Self Sometimes Wish Fine Right Now Machines Calm Relax Calm Down Time Machine Fine Things

Author:Tristan Wilds

“I would like to say when I turn the project over to the label that I have been successful. And that's truly the way I feel. But, in addition to the self-pride in 'making' a good album, to be honest, I'd love to have a hit record!”

Way Feels Has Beens Self Turns Successful Records Honest Pride Projects Albums Labels Being Honest

Author:Chely Wright

“To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.”

Way Self Redneck Sense Of Self Funny Redneck

Author:Gretchen Wilson

“I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.”

Book Self Moments Helping Reading Felt Issues Self Help Yoga Mental Health Buddhist Meditating Health Issues Self Help Books Help Book

Author:Mike White

“I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.”

People Feels Believe Self I Believe I Believe In

Author:Mike White

“Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.”

Self Electorate

Author:Paul Weyrich

“Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.”

Self Electorate

Author:Paul Weyrich

“It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.”

Kind Important Self Done Bits Goes On Pressure Albums Best Things Time Goes On

Author:Al Yankovic

“However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.”

Ifs Self Moving Ability Doubt Acquire Self-doubt

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“I'm never argumentative for the sake of being argumentative, I don't think. And more than ever, I've had to be willing to fight just to get records released, or just to be able to walk away with a little bit of self-respect and pride.”

Thinking Littles Self Able Fighting Bits Walks Records Willing Pride Little Bit Sake Self Respect

Author:Ryan Adams

“Being a rock musician is already like ego-tripping hardcore. You're self-consumed, and you're always thinking. It's really easy to say, "I'm going to write a song about this situation, and when I'm done, everyone will care." To everybody else, that's ego-tripping.”

Thinking Writing Self Done Care Song Easy Situation Rocks Ego Musician Consumed Rock Music Hardcore Always Thinking Tripping Rock Musicians

Author:Ryan Adams

“"Believe in yourself" - that makes sense. You should believe in yourself - you should believe that you're capable of great things - but you would hope that somebody would have some sort of self-awareness.”

Should Believe Self Awareness Capable Self Awareness Great Things Make Sense Believe In Yourself Believe In You

Author:Timothy Simons

“We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.”

Self Problem Age Wake Up Add Obvious Lists Disaster Folly Addresses Fourth Tweet Entry

Author:Thomas Frank

“The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.”

Self Objects Enthusiasm Perpetual

Book:The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction

Source: The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction

“As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.”

Children Self Might Causes Society Position Students Discipline Limits Authority Resistance Obedience Conformity Apathy Discourse Rebellious Authoritarianism Abnegation

Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.”

Littles Ideas Self Light Culture Common Christianity Creativity Fate Share Appreciate Artistic Tragic Narcissism Paradigm Narcissus Artistic Creativity God Nature Tragic Fate

Author:John Walford

“Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.”

“Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing.”

Inspirational Self Earth Lasts Games Buddhism Self Realization Realization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.”

Inspirational Mind Made Different Self Film Courses Stars Ignorance Buddhism Personality

Author:Frederick Lenz

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