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“What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when Christ nullifies the force of my inherent "self' life," and communicates to me a Divine life, that Christian living in its true sense, is at all possible for me.”

Self Christian Force Christ Natural Impossible Divine Communicate Temptation Christian Living Inherent Participants Imitator Divine Life Perfectly Natural

Author:F. Huegel

“If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.”

Ifs Doe Self Life Is Lines Masters Flow Currents Supreme Temptation Satan Electric Invited Ceremony Electric Current Master Ceremony

Author:F. Huegel

“Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the suffering and self-sacrifice which they endured in carrying out those deeds. If their actions were free of suffering or sacrifice, then are they truly deserving of gratitude?”

Ifs Life Feels Self Action Suffering Compassion Sacrifice Gratitude Deeds Impossibility Deserving Self Sacrifice

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.”

People Self Politics Details Ignorant Hysteria

Author:Derek R. Audette

“The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.”

Self Acceptance Greatness Essence Neglect Transcendentalism

Author:James Anthony Froude

“New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.”

People Self Character Pleasure Roles Elements Pressure Satisfaction Productive Materialism Traits Consumerism Indulgence Overconsumption Passivity Self Indulgence American Character

Author:Vance Packard

“Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the ease we have never found). The marketers don't tell us much about their products, but they spend a great deal of energy (and enormous amounts of money) appealing to our fears and dreams. Thus, the idolatry of possessions plays to the deeper idolatry of our selves-and in an endlessly consuming society, persons are always remaking themselves with new belongings.”

“Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.”

“The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.”

Self Wealth Poverty Forever Serving Republic Tolerate Consumerism Overconsumption Self Serving

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.”

“To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.”

Long Self Running Danger Consequence Negative Satisfaction Nuclear Long Runs Negative Consequences

Author:Dalai Lama

“Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.”

“A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.”

Self Tree Defense Driving Forests Automobile Self Defense Plant A Tree Tree Of Life Forests And Trees Tree Planting Plants And Trees Drunk Driving Woods And Forests Drinking And Driving Drive Safely Drink And Drive Don't Drink And Drive

Author:Woody Allen

“We want to know what our self is. We are the sky. Our thoughts are the birds that come and go. You can enjoy the birds and their beauty, but it is the sky that lasts.”

Knows Want Self Lasts Enjoy Sky Bird Our Thoughts Comes And Goes Visualization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how errors have got mixed up with truth, have delayed the knowledge of it, and retarded its progress; and, after having followed the various epochs and traversed every climate, finally to contemplate the edifice founded on the labours of successive centuries and of various nations.”

Self Together Science Nations Interesting Progress Century Discovery Errors Climate Various Connected Astronomy Labour Contemplating Transport Delayed Retarded Edifice

Author:Jean Sylvain Bailly

“How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.”

“The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for us. There is no doubt that God wants us to enjoy it and even use its resources to optimize a good life for ourselves. But the ultimate purpose of creation is worship. Nature and all living things were created to glorify God.”

Source: Carpe Diem: Seize the Day

“When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.”

Self Hate Emotion Consciousness Doubt Buddhism Limits Ego Anxiety Mindfulness Negative Sense Of Self Meditating Negative Thoughts Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.”

Self Process Buddhism Mindfulness Analysis Sifting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.”

People World Self Life Is Suffering Reflection Self Reflection Masturbation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least offended with those who mock at or oppose you, for they do you good; crucify your self-love and acknowledge the wrong, the error of your heart. But have the deepest pity for those who mock at words and works of faith and piety, of righteousness; for those who oppose the good which you are doing... God preserve you - getting exasperated at them.”

Heart Self Christian Passion Influence Self Love Errors Pity Preserves Acknowledge Orthodox Righteousness Offended Piety Orthodox Christian Mock

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.”

Self Moments Past Ignorance Sense Of Self Past Experiences Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The idea of self is dependent upon attraction, aversion and memory. Memory is simply a serial account of attractions and aversions that don't exist now except in imagination.”

Ideas Self Imagination Memories Ignorance Accounts Attraction Dependent Aversion Serials

Author:Frederick Lenz

“This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.”

Made Self Light Ignorance Intelligent Infinite Senses Delusion Mysticism Solidity

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The burden you are carrying around is the burden of self. You seek release from that. You want to let it all go. You want to forget who you are and what you are. You wish to be the whole universe, infinite, endless.”

Want Self Whole Universe Wish Forget Ignorance Infinite Who You Are Burden Endless Release

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.”

Self Moments Form Individual Movement Ignorance Bounds Wave Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.”

Self Body Age Eternity Reincarnation Comes And Goes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity.”

Self Existence Millions Eternity Lifetime Reincarnation Exploring

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.”

Self Ocean Swimming Reincarnation Dissolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.”

Self Wish Enjoy Youth Drink All Time Owners Self Knowledge Fountain Fountain Of Youth

Book:Magic of Believing Collection

Source: Magic of Believing Collection

“To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.”

Self Action Conditions Speech All Things Careful Servant Motive Void Assertion Flawless Self Will

Book:The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice

Source: The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice

“To go beyond karma you have to end the structure of self.”

Ends Self Structure Karma Nothingness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.”

World Self Death Dies Perception Perceive Inner World Dissolution

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.”

Ideas Self Death Dies Attraction Going Away Sense Of Self Aversion Self Will Just A Thought

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.”

Self Can Do Steps Discovery Self Discovery Life And Death Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.”

Ifs Self Given Effort Enlightenment Lifetime Enlightened Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.”

Self Government Politics Products Competition Forgotten Extremes Enterprise Minorities Elites Frustrated Bureaucracy Taxation Free Enterprise Oppressive Governments

Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.”

Self School Taught Self Taught

Author:Agnes Denes

“I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am.”

Thinking Stills Self Actors Bits Doubters

Author:Kit Harington

“If you give up on politics, you're giving up on democracy. And if you give up on democracy, you're basically saying to the moneyed interests, the powerful people and institutions of society, take it all. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then we give up. Then we are 100 percent plutocracy.”

People Ifs Giving Self Interest Powerful Democracy Giving Up Percent Institutions Fulfilling Prophecy Self Fulfilling Prophecy Plutocracy

Author:Robert Reich

“I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.”

People Way Years Important Self Found Relax Self Deprecating Self Deprecating Humor

Author:Robert Reich

“To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.”

Feels Kind Self Enough Can Do Struggle Fronts Yeah Competition Scary Humbling Elitist

Author:Ryan Adams

“I had self-doubt about whether my story was interesting to people. I didn't want to write something that was anecdotal. It was important to me that people would get something out of my book. I want people to read it and say, "Now I don't feel so alone," or "I'm going to remember that next time I'm being an asshole."”

People Want Feels Writing Important Book Self Stories Remember Next Interesting Doubt Next Time Self-doubt

Author:Lizz Winstead

“It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.”

Thinking Persons Self Easy Waiting Process Voice Answers Creative Special Conscious Right Thing Self Conscious Creative Person

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.”

Ifs World Humans Looks Made Self Animal Situation Intelligent Slavery Species Selfish Superiors Dumb Sufficient Animal Rights Self Sufficient Callous

Author:Adela Popescu

“The treatments themselves do not 'cure' the condition, they simply restore the body's self-healing ability.”

Self Body Ability Healing Conditions Medicine Cures Wellness Treatment Self Healing Alternative Medicine

Author:Leon Chaitow

“Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.”

Self Longing Restraint Fasting Incessant Self Restraint

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.”

May Mean Self Suffering Violence Stage Errors Pursuit Doctrine Opponents Application Satyagraha Vindication Infliction

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.”

Firsts Persons Self Grows Steps Ruins First Steps Restraint Suppression Self Restraint

Book:The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

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