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“We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain, they invest it with meaning. Not plot. Not character.”

People Self Character Adventure Mountain Enlightenment Discovery Self Realization Realization Plot Pregnant

Author:Joe Rohde

“Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?”

May Self Suffering Answers Dying Limits Killing Acceptable Disabled

Author:Wesley J. Smith

“A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.”

Self Character Causes Sacrifice Bears Equal Saint Denial Martyr Thorough Strength Of Character Misers Self-denial

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks.”

Self Force Security Amount Notion Occupation Coalitions Dependency Self Reliant Security Forces

Author:George W. Casey, Jr.

“Anarchism is in reality the ideal of political and social science, and also the ideal of religion. It is the ideal to which Jesus Christ looked forward. Christ founded no church, established no state, gave practically no laws, organized no government and set up no external authority, but he did seek to write on the hearts of men God's law and make them self-legislating.”

Men Writing Heart Self States Reality Government Law Political Jesus Social Christ Church Authority Jesus Christ Ideals Organized Anarchism Social Science

Author:R. Heber Newton

“Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!”

Mean Self Dies Poor Pieces Fool Suicide Things To Do Heroism Slaughter Better Things To Do

Author:George Darley

“To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.”

May Self Process Letting Go Extraordinary Oneself Motive Originality Involvement Facility Detached Ulterior Motive

Author:Joshua L. Goldberg

“I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without a break - to complete exhaustion; and while I was in the middle of it I didn't even notice.”

Self Hours Break Middle Six Obsession Thirty Oblivion Exhaustion

Author:Alton Tobey

“Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?”

Self Dream Artist Fantasy Serving Our Dreams Pretense Self Serving

Book:The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol

Source: The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol

“In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted out the mystery of why I am always putting down everybody else's artwork.”

Self Mystery Self Esteem Esteem Artwork

Author:Jim Rowe

“By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.”

Art Self Fashion Serious Lonely Marketing Valuable Block Operations Thoughtful Serving Scholar Commerce Persuasion Self Serving Auctions

Author:Abe Ajay

“Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!”

Self Artist Paint Deception Deceit Traits Remedy Portraits Self Portrait

Author:Scott Kahn

“Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.”

Self Artist Forget Audience Groups Feet Taught Recognition Classroom Outsiders Admirer Avid Self Taught

Author:Scott Kahn

“Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of passionate intensity.”

Self Today Artist Passionate Recognition Excellent Intensity Indispensable Promotion Demagoguery Self Promotion

Author:Roman Genn

“When I'm feeling proud of myself, I should remember to ask myself why I think I am of any value at all. I have done nothing that a hundred thousand other people couldn't do, and most of them would probably do it better, and they probably wouldn't feel so self-important about it. I should always be ashamed of myself.”

People Thinking Feels Should Important Self Done Feelings Remember Values Asks Proud Thousand Hundred Ashamed Proud Of Myself

Author:John S. Hall

“To trust yourself is to trust Silence. To trust your own heart is to trust the wisdom that is radiating and shining. All the thoughts, feelings, desires, and fears are just a superimposition that is called 'myself.' When all that disappears, for at least a moment, your Self shines forth. Radiantly, clear, and empty. Needing nothing, nourished, and overflowing.”

Heart Self Moments Feelings Desire Silence Clear Empty Shining Disappear Trust Yourself

Author:Eli Jaxon-Bear

“A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.”

Self Situation Economics Pessimism Fulfilling

Book:Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

Source: Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

“There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.”

World Littles Self Kids Education Adults Guidance Civilized Affected Peers

Author:William Damon

“"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself. Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.”

Persons Self Universe Individual Understanding Answers Civilization Certainty Meaning Of Life Awe What Is The Meaning Of Life What Is The Meaning

Author:Julian Jaynes

“And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.”

Mind Self Feelings Order Culture Voice Loss Stage Creation Divine Products Return Truth Is Conscious Direct Absolutes Responsible Debate Judgement Reverse Inward Machinery Germs Prerequisites

Author:Julian Jaynes

“Every act is an expression of one's self.”

Self Action Expression

Author:Eiji Yoshikawa

“Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.”

People Self Law Wealth Common Weapons Spread Stores Serving Monk Rumor Guise Self Serving

Book:Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Source: Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

“If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.”

Ifs Way Self Song Passion Speak Strong Women Voice Space Opinion Heard And Love Aggressive Influential Self Trust Love And Passion Womanly Strong Opinions

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with the way we have acted or been treated, instead of stewing in self-recrimination on the one hand, or harboring ill will toward someone else on the other, prayer gives us a way out of the circle of guilt and blame. We bring our painful feelings into the open and say, "I have done wrong," or "I have been wronged." And then we ask for a vaster view--one that contains within it all the forgiveness we need in order to move forward.”

“I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.”

Ifs Knows Self Use Action Order Turns Force Wish Responsibility Hell Path Praying Higher Shadow Crosses Destruction Ultimate Know Yourself I Pray Radiant Descent Higher Self Rebuilding

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.”

Self Philosophy Interest Brain Failing Stem Altruism Imperatives Self Interest Brutes

Book:Blindsight

Source: Blindsight

“God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned -- a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! -- Therefore there is no God.”

“What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.”

Self Hands Able Wealth Rich Anxiety Mouths Income Occasions Excess Providence Assured Morrow Expenditures

Book:A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women

Source: A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women

“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

“Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to be self-moving and to behave in unpredictable ways. And recent studies in biology seem to demonstrate that bacteria and macromolecules have elemental forms of perception, memory, choice, and self-motion.”

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

“Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.”

Giving Self Problem Names Process Levels Psychology Childhood Self Esteem Acceptance Giving Up Normal Seeking Esteem Lifts Approval True Self Components Kinship Perfectly Normal

Author:David Richo

“Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be. We are rare, unmatched, mysterious. This is why the quality of openness is so crucial to our self-discovery. We cannot know ourselves by who we think we are, who others take us to be, or what our driver's license may say. We are fields of potential, some now actualized, most not yet.”

Thinking Knows Humans Kind May Self Quality Fields Identity Discovery Self Discovery Mysterious Drivers Openness Crucial License Fingerprints One Of A Kind Articulation

Author:David Richo

“If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.”

Ifs Want Self Dies Standards Billions Smarter Improving Precise Modification

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”

Art Self Secret Fine Arts Creative Art Creative Artists Inspirational Artist Inspirational Art Creating Art

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.”

Life Self Life Is Alive Wonderful Possibility

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“I was fortunate to sell at a time of great sea change in the romance genre; suddenly heroines were allowed to be portrayed as having rich, fulfilling lives. They didn't need a man for security or self-esteem, but having that one very special man in their lives proved the icing on the cake.”

Men Needs Self Romance Rich Sea Special Security Self Esteem Sells Esteem Genre Fortunate Cake Fulfilling Heroines Fulfilling Life Icing Sea Change Icing On The Cake Special Man

Author:JoAnn Ross

“I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.”

Thinking Writing Children Made Book Self My Own Company Solitude Degrees Glad Self Reliance Reliance Conditioning Writing A Book Only Child

Author:Alan Hollinghurst

“Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.”

Real Self Fall Social Parent Term Figures Authority Expectations Expected Selfish Dirty Destructive Expecting Greedy Gross Elders Self Destructive Reversal Anti Social Authority Figures

Author:Jean Liedloff

“A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.”

Knows Real Self Hate Sex Loss Grief Secret Forever Possibility Metaphor Vampire Agency Lasting Flexible Love Hate Stagnation Real Self Forever Love Sex Change

Author:Kelly Link

“Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be like.”

Self Might Moon Built Isolated Vegas Las Vegas Colony Biosphere

Author:Marc Cooper

“Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of leisure, an inability to be at leisure, that went together with idleness; that the restlessness of work-for-work's sake arose from nothing other than idleness. There is a curious connection in the fact that the restlessness of a self-destructive work-fanatacism should take its rise from the absence of a will to accomplish something.”

Should Said Self Facts Age Together Middle Connections Opposites Sake Accomplish Absence Curious Code Destructive Leisure Inability Idleness Middle Ages Restlessness Self Destructive

Author:Josef Pieper

“In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.”

Self Light Space Meditation Ego

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.”

“I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher.”

Self Age Sides Memories Watches Impossible Journey Return Messages Draws Garden Distance Old Age Horizon Void Sunlight Signals Astronaut Quietness Watch Me Decipher Ripening Far Side

Author:R. S. Thomas

“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.”

“As for the employees, the payment in stock options revives, somewhat ironically, the old anarchist ideology of self-management of the company, as they are co-owners, co-producers, and co-managers of the firm.”

Self Company Management Producers Ideology Managers Firm Employee Owners Payment Anarchist Revive Self Management Stock Options

Book:The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society

Source: The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society

“Whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved.”

Ifs Persons Self Christian Evil Company Lovers Holy Saved Strict Hebrew Matthew Scoffers

Author:Joseph Alleine

“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”

Men Self Natural Forget Higher Losing Commit Guidance Advancing Forget Him

Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

“The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.”

Knows Self Given Acceptance Humility Duty Evidence Delight Denial Beloved Proportion Repentance Our Love Self-denial

Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.”

Want Giving Different Self Helping Pleasure Greater Habit Healthy Treats Rewards Self Control Justified Vitality Indulgence Boost Healthy Habits Small Pleasures

Author:Gretchen Rubin

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