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“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

“Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.”

Inspirational Looks Self Light Able Process Sides Dark Acceptance Buddhism Involved Self Acceptance Enamored

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.”

Wells Self Care Able Understanding My Own Careers Capacity Self Knowledge Self Care Nurturing

Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge the heathen. In the sphere of abstract morality this could possibly be said, but this is not Biblical morality - O man, who judgest others!”

Men Said Real Self Eye Able Understanding Sin Judging Morality Judgment Jew Abstract Sinner Spheres Accurate Biblical Self Knowledge Heathen Pharisees

Book:Man: The Image of God

Source: Man: The Image of God

“I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that core of my being. It’s a kind of self-analysis that requires a balance between the rational and the intuited.”

Way Kind Persons Self Able Balance Core Statements Rational Analysis Self Analysis

Author:Thornton Willis

“Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.”

“The idea that positive illusions are in the service of sef-esteem virtually requires that they stay in check. If one develops substantially unrealistic expectations regarding the future that greatly exceed what one is actually able to accomplish, then one is set up for failure and disappointment, leading to lower self-esteem.”

Ifs Ideas Self Able Self Esteem Illusion Expectations Disappointment Accomplish Checks Esteem Exceed Unrealistic Expectations

Author:Shelley E. Taylor

“I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.”

Self Able Player Taught Musician Picks Self Taught

Author:Walter Becker

“Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.”

Self Whole Problem Able Interest Common Steps Democracy Addresses Self Interest

Author:Eli Pariser

“When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.”

Source: The Positive Principle Today

“I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.”

Source: A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.”

Men Should Self Dream Hands Able Jesus Nations Destiny Air Century Should Have Ambitious Peasants Thin Air

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.”

Firsts Self Helping Shows Hands Able Rights Generations Share Self Help Willing Ready Citizens Capacity Weight Regard Mere Republic Passengers Good Citizen Sturdy

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or her own self. Some people have the conviction they must do it all alone. They have no faith in others. . . they are convinced that there is no one able to do the job as well as themselves. They refuse to admit that they may need the help of friends, doctor, minister, or even God.”

“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.”

“When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.”

“I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed filmmakers who wouldn't listen to the executive-suited wisdom, and they believed in me from director to actor. Not from salesman to commodity.”

Thinking Self Reason Able Jobs Actors Strong Directors Filmmaker Executives Very Strong Possessed Commodity Salesman Strong Self

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.”

Self Hard Able Opportunity Force Missing Prove Survival Illusion Driving Painter Extras Ambitious Driving Force Sceptic Publicists

Author:Stuart Pearson Wright

“When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet.”

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Author:Jason Collins

“The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.”

World Self Able Suffering Bears Highest Overcoming Appetite Thyself

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“It's so great to be able to make people laugh, because this is so often how we get our selves back.”

People Self Able Laughing Making People Laugh

Author:Anne Lamott

“I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.”

Men I Can Self Hands Able Imagine Wonderful Letting Go Horrible Never Quit Horrible Things Oar Ruthlessness

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature.”

Ends Self Able Virtue Duty Revolution Constitution Defense Punishment Welfare Republic Self Defense

Author:Georg Buchner

“If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.”

Ifs Writing Wells Self Reality Able Universe Objectives Observation Description Observing Boundless

Author:Gao Xingjian

“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

“Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes. They thereby become blind to the world. But the fact is that the third eye will never open. We can never close our eyes to the world in the name of spirituality. Self-realization is the ability to see ourselves in all beings. This is the third eye through which you see, even while your two eyes are open. We should be able to love and serve others, seeing ourselves in them. This is the fulfillment of spiritual practice.”

“I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.”

Self Age Able Accepting Sufficient Forty Far Away Looking Forward Self Sufficient Being Old

Author:Stella Vine

“If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.”

Ifs Trying Self Able Pain Past Grows Differences Fashion Mets Limits Disease Yoga Greed Caring Honestly Unconscious Making Love

Author:Ken Dychtwald

“Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.”

Source: Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought

“Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.”

People Humans Doe War Self Helping Government Able Found Dignity Human Dignity Handouts

Author:Trent Lott

“Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long history of short-term thinking and self-destructive behavior among my fellow comic book creators. No matter how many horror stories they have heard they won't even go so far as to hire themselves a lawyer when they need it. It breaks my heart. I am a very proud union member of the Writers Guild. And I can't imagine my fellow comic creators being able to pull something like this together.”

“If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”

Ifs Self Matter Hands Able Ability Emotion Awareness Emotional Smart Empathy Self Awareness Intelligence Manage Emotional Intelligence Distressing No Empathy

Author:Daniel Goleman

“Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.”

Persons Self Philosophy Care Able Abandon Self Control Tantra Fixation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.”

Self Able Attention Issues Honesty Gains Details Mysticism Personal Power Attention To Detail Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

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