Best spring & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.”

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.”

Self Matter Light Form Common Spring Corruption Preserves

Author:Philip James Bailey

“Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.”

Mind Mean Self Feelings Stars Fate Written Holy Anxiety Spring Decided Self Confidence Heavenly Oracles Cybernetics Psycho Cybernetics Lack Of Self Confidence Written In The Stars

Book:Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded

“The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.”

Men Life Self Joy Effort Courage Sacrifice He Man Duty Spring Men And Women Ideals Labor Strive Philanthropy Self Sacrifice

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.”

Ifs Self Feelings Sweet Wind Spring Murder Blame Guilt Endure Rounds Ghost Chosen Necks Rope Obliged Imposing Humiliating Downtrodden Guilt Trip

Author:Mordecai Richler

“The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.”

People Self Spirit Energy Trouble Worst Despair Spring Defeat Opening Horizon Invites Fulfilling Hopelessness Helplessness

Author:Norman Cousins

“Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.”

Men Heart Self Hands Nations Imagination Sacrifice Spring Miracle Instruments Enthusiasm Heroic Heroism Self Sacrifice Hands Of God

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.”

Kind Self Principles Sacrifice Self Love Spring Instance Denial Heroism Splendid Altars Self-denial Magnanimity

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.”

Mind Self Whole Spiritual Land Truth Is Spring Seeds Cells Mystical New Life Literal Barren

Book:Illuminata: A Return to Prayer

Source: Illuminata: A Return to Prayer

“Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.”

Self Spring Autumn Sentimental Careless Bonfire

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.”

Self Spring Factors

Author:Ashley Judd

“Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.”

Men Soul Ends Self Reason Whole Action Self Love Balance Spring Draws Plant Active Spots Compare Flames Destroying Peculiar Void Nutrition Meteors

Book:Essay on Man and Other Poems

Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems

“The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they are emphasized as if they could spring to life through an act of will alone.”

Ifs Real Self Possibility Development Late Spring Capitalism Fulfillment Suspects Obsolete Actualization Self Fulfillment

Author:Richard Rosen

“The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.”

Men Firsts Doe Soul Self Law Sin Simple Opinion Virtue Pure Office Spring Superiors Naked Rational Obedience Heavenly Commandments Submission Disputes Benefactors Self Opinion

Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

“As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so, The sages say, this universe springs from, The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul), the source of life.”

Soul Self God Body Earth Universe Grows Issues Source Hair Spring Plant Supreme Sage Spiders Sprouts Source Of Life Deathless

Author:Eknath Easwaran

“Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.”

World Self Talking Christianity Buddhism Ego Majors Spring Hatred Islam Greed Conclusion Selfishness Hinduism Judaism Darwinism Confucianism Unkindness Christianity And Islam

Author:Karen Armstrong

“It almost seems as if autumn were the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned, more creative when it comes with its will-to-change and shatters the much too ready-made, self-satisfied and really almost bourgeois-complacent image of summer.”

Ifs Made Self Seems Creative Ready Summer Spring Creator Satisfied Autumn Bourgeois Complacent

Book:Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1902-1926

Source: Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1902-1926

“The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.”

Men Needs Writing Self Action Conflict Spring Resolve Grown Man Inner Conflict

Author:Andre Maurois

“Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.”

Self Kindness Spring Destructive Barriers Relationship With God Self Destructive

Author:Max Anders

“The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self.”

Knows May Soul Self Would Be Purpose Forever Eternal Spring Infinite Sole Thirst Quench

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the world, that British patriotism was rediscovered in those spring days. It was never really lost. But it would be no bad thing if the feeling that swept the country then were to continue to inspire us. For if there was any doubt about the determination of the British people it was removed by the men and women who, a few months ago, brought a renewed sense of pride and self-respect to our country.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Well, after Zombie Birdhouse came out, I toured behind it in the fall of 1982, into the spring, and in the summer in the Far East. At that time, I found my work self-referential; it was getting to be rock songs about a rock singer who lived a rock life on the rock road, and I was starting to wonder what I would be like to rent my own apartment, what it would be like to have a checkbook.”

Wells Self Would Be Song Fall Found My Own Behinds Wonder Rocks Summer Spring Starting East Singers Apartment Zombie Rock Song

Author:Iggy Pop

“I am a supporter of much of the Arab Spring, as a matter of indigenous self-determination. So, I see the United States' role in Libya as an appropriately restrained one in providing some international support for the work of those trying to bring democratic change against a regime that has undoubtedly been dictatorial, particularly in the past twenty years.”

“Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.”

Want Mind Believe Humans Self Lying Certain Human Beings Racism Spring Treats Treated Falsehood Self Centered Anti Racism

Author:Alveda King

“Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.”

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”

Source: Jane Eyre

“People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?”

“...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!”

Ifs Has Beens Self My Own Watches Millions Stage Products Spring Faults Depth Bounds Obvious Intellect Witness Significance Bows Strokes Symphony Unfolding Trumpets Skeletons Brass Imbeciles

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real" (so he smiles smiling)"but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment" The is blond with small hands "& everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing”

People Ifs Way Firsts I Can Real Self Sometimes Moments Hands Would Be Remember Rooms Imagine Middle Flower Easier Paper Spring Suicide Dancing Rose If I Could Being Real Sniffing Small Hands

Book:ViVa

Source: ViVa

“As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. (“Cafe Endless: Spring Rain”)”

Self Worship Spring Understood Rain Tradition Dignity Shame Endless Awe Vitality Being There Cafes Exaltation Spring Rain

Author:Nancy Holder

“The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.”

Source: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...

“Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself.”

Heart Soul Self Whole Loses My Own Forget Poverty Air Love You Return My Heart Spring Flow Breathe My Soul Streams Emptiness Gates Allowing Prisoner Anxious Petty Assertion

Author:Karl Rahner

“We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.”

Knows May Self Tree Scene One Day Spring Winter Following Snow Covered

Author:Arthur Golden

“Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.”

Self Self Love Spring Jealousy

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love and coercion can never go together; But though love cannot be forced on anyone, It can be awakened in him through love itself. Love is essentially self communicative; Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it. True love is unconquerable and irresistible, And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself, Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches.”

Way Self Together Form Force Love Is Love You Goes On Self Love Spring Gathering Coercion Awakened Irresistible True Love Is Unconquerable Amenable

Author:Meher Baba

“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.”

Self Purpose Tree Spring Bird Tigers Fullness

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

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

“We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.”

Ifs Knows Self Earth Form Science Growth Wonder Knowledge Creatures Spring Constitution Plant Obvious Stranger Ignorant Womb Obvious Things

Author:Joseph Glanvill

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