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“My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.”

Self Mother Term Pieces Accepted Savages

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.”

Ifs Self Term Realizing Meditation Strange Self Realization Realization Going Away Hinduism Butterfly Metamorphosis Caterpillars Cocoons

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.”

World Want Two Self Helping Term Media Balance Citizens Strikes Two Things Short Term Bothered Good Citizen

Author:Eli Pariser

“In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.”

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.”

World Self Individual Term Attitude Dispassionate

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.”

“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.”

“The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.”

Giving Mind Self Term Secret Doubt Profound Complexes Humble Realistic Faith In God Eliminating Self-doubt Faith In Yourself Infirmity

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.”

People Ifs Long Two Self Term Being True Long Term Decay Short Term Mislead Be True To Yourself True To Yourself

Book:Humans of New York: Stories

Source: Humans of New York: Stories

“Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .”

Want Real Self Remember Term Civilization Limits Capacity Increase Contentment Restraint Deliberate Restriction Indulgence Self Indulgence Real Happiness Multiplication

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.”

Years Firsts Long Self Moving Joy Mother Term Love Is Animal Existence Delight Range Sensibility Expansion Absorbing Suppression Mother's Love

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?”

Knows Ideas Self Term Concepts Explanation Dependence Unprecedented Insufficient Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

Book:Who is Man?

Source: Who is Man?

“For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong. And for almost as long, some among them have derided such talk, called it a charade, insisted that war lies beyond (or beneath) moral judgment. War is a world apart, where life itself is at stake, where human nature is reduced to its elemental forms, where self-interest and necessity prevail. Here men and women do what they must to save themselves and their communities, and morality and law have no place. Inter arma silent leges: in time of war the law is silent.”

Source: Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

“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

“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.”

“It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.”

World Way Self Reason Values Belief Term Doubt Atheism Essentials Logic Method Errors Atheist Checks Deception Agreement Inquiry Self Deception Scientific Method

Author:Richard Carrier

“Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is a mark of virtue. Pain becomes the inignia of morality - and conversely, pleasure becomes the insignia of immorality. Christianity, therefore, does not say, "Go forth and be miserable." Rather, it says, "Go forth and practice the virtue of self-sacrifice." In practical terms, these commands are identical.”

“If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.”

Ifs Self Running Term Break Miles Limitation Barriers Breaking Down

Author:Dean Karnazes

“We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most “intellectual” piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning?”

“Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.”

Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.”

Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

“Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.”

Thinking Self Might Term Interest Development Genuine Charm Enlightened Simplest Self Interest Best Self Unmotivated Interest In Others

Book:That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm

Source: That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm

“The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.”

People Way Long Self Motivation Term Long Term Self Motivation Motivated Self Motivated

Author:Seth Godin

“If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop, I would have just said: 'No way. I mean, how?' If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.”

Ifs Way Humans Mean Said Self Running Term Human Beings Break Capable Miles Limitation Barriers Breaking Down

Author:Dean Karnazes

“Think about the pressure to "pass" by lying about one's agethat familiar temptation to falsify a condition of one's birth oridentity and pretend to be part of a more favored group. Fair-skinned blacks invented "passing" as a term, Jews escaping anti-Semitism perfected the art, and the sexual closet continues the punishment, but pretending to be a younger age is probably the most encouraged form of "passing," with the least organized support for "coming out" as one's true generational self.”

“Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.”

Self Term Race Teacher Pride Contradiction Ethical Scream Association Segregation

Book:Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

Source: Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

“Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory. In short, cognizability (in its widest sense) and being are not merely metaphysically the same, but are synonymous terms.”

Self Reality Term Realism Contradictory Cognition

Book:Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic

Source: Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic

“Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.”

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.”

Knows Trying Has Beens Two Self Today America Faces Choices Girl Sex Enjoy Term Issues Danger Late Majors Concern Relation Males Sexuality Intimate Fearful Adolescence Defining Sexually

Author:Mary Pipher

“You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.”

Ifs Wells May Self America Asks Term Possibility Paper Wit Desperate Privacy Autobiography Publicity Outrageous Gimmicks

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in working for others in the world. But until we find our inner truth, our work in the world will always revolve around our 'selves'. As long as we think about the world in terms of 'self' and 'others', our actions will be selfish. Our 'self' follows us wherever we go, so positive results will be limited.”

Thinking World Long Self Might Action Spiritual Lying Term Results Truth Is Selfish Selflessness Our Actions Being Selfish Egocentric Spiritual Truth Positive Results

Author:Tarthang Tulku

“Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.”

People Self Problem Seems Spiritual Spirituality Term Millions Conscious Fellows Atheist Illness Available Mental Illness Deception Mysticism Fraud Elsewhere Mystical Self Deception

Author:Sam Harris

“Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.”

“One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.”

World Self Facts Term Accepting This World Graves Companion Cradle Accompany Accompany Us

Book:A Daughter’s a Daughter

Source: A Daughter’s a Daughter

“I think the beauty industry is a stepping stone in terms of pageants that will give you a launching pad to be seen. For people to understand who you are and what you stand for... I think it teaches self esteem and self worth. And it also encourages you to have a more philanthropic viewpoint of the world.”

People Thinking World Giving Self Term Teach Self Esteem Industry Stones Who You Are Self Worth Esteem Viewpoints Stepping Stones Philanthropic Pads Launching Pageant Beauty Industry

Author:Kenya Moore

“We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we have not had the chance to look at the nature of justice in terms of no-self. That kind of justice is based on the idea of self, but it may be very interesting to explore justice in terms of no-self.”

Thinking Looks Kind May Ideas Self Term Justice Chance Interesting Rights Equal Advantage Very Interesting Being Equal

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.”

People Thinking Feels Self Term Justice Love Is West Misunderstood

Author:Bell Hooks

“I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self build and off-grid properties and how it would affect us in terms of lifestyle.”

Self Strong Term Interest Technology Trade Property Lifestyle Engineering Engineers And Off Grids

Author:Andy Griffiths

“A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.”

Thinking Self Dream Term Party Democracy Democrat Selfless

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.”

Thinking Self Might Given Term Higher Standards Defined Attainment Success And Failure Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior”

Self Speak Social Term Behavior Efficacy Self Efficacy Informative Social Behavior

Author:Albert Bandura

“Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.”

World Has Beens Self Character Political Politics Term Interest Connected Deceived Suspicious Self Interest Term Limits

Book:THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: THE RIGHTS OF MAN: The French Revolution – Ideals, Arguments & Motives (Political Classic): Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise - easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that 'good' men in positions of power will produce evil, while the ordinary man without power but able to engage in voluntary cooperation with his neighbors will produce good, requires analysis and thought, subordinating emotions to the rational.”

“Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.”

Self Philosophy Political Next Politics Winning Term Election Governing Self Centered Term Limits

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.”

Important Self Country Political Politics Term Deals Issues Focus Months Limits Members Finals Congress Retirement Important Issues Term Limits

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.”

Inspirational Should Self Able Joy Universe Heaven Term Religious Hell Taste Demand Finals Consent Blackmail Loveless Veto Great Divorce

Book:The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

“You are meant to judge physical reality. You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings and images, that the inner self forms that world. In your terms, you cannot be allowed to go into other dimensions until you have learned the great power of your thoughts and subjective feelings.”

World Self Feelings Reality Form Term Realizing Judging Dimensions Subjective Inner Self Great Power Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Seth

“With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.”

Knows World Book Self Dream Desire Term Born Consciousness Standards New World Self Conscious Self Consciousness Standards Set

Author:Peter Abrahams