Best thousand & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.”

Self Christian Joy Religion Dies Christianity Thousand Argument Certainty Strongest Righteous Complacent Self Righteous Completeness Consecration Somber

Book:Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You

Source: Lifestyle Evangelism: Learning to Open Your Life to Those Around You

“One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.”

Looks Self Thousand Reflection Crosses Morbid Condemning

Author:A. B. Simpson

“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.”

Wells Self Use Creative Thousand Mercy Victim Accidents Presentation Actuality Creative Writers

Author:John Updike

“A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.”

Ifs Wells May Persons Self Literature Thousand Six Accounts Seven Biographies

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.”

May Self Names Energy Given Causes Divine Thousand Oneness Primaries

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness”

Mind Self States Ability Awareness Thousand Ten Enlightenment State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“Hitler was undoubtedly a genius but he lacked self-control. He recognized no limits. Otherwise the thousand-year Reich would have lasted more than twelve years.”

Years Self Genius Thousand Limits Twelve Self Control Thousand Years

Author:Wilhelm Frick

“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

“I went through times of self-hate, thinking how undeveloped spiritual I was. Everyone else in the ashram, a thousand people, nobody had a girlfriend or boyfriend. I did.”

People Thinking Self Spiritual Hate Thousand Girlfriend Rama Rough Times Self Hate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.”

Mind Self States Thousand Ten Ego Perfection Immortality State Of Mind Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.”

Self Common Mets Thousand Self Knowledge

Book:Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies

Source: Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies

“A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.”

Self Night Morning Sacrifice Duty Return Thousand Labor Dear Affection Crowds Wheels Endurance Procession

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.”

Self Thousand Commitment Perseverance

Author:Lord Byron

“That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.”

Self Thousand Ten Enlightenment Delusion

Author:Dogen

“It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.”

Thinking Self Easier Thousand Achievement Standards Charity Oneself Noble Self Respect Donate Personal Achievement

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...”

Knows Made Self Facts Eye Names Heaven Simple Numbers Healing Cases Streets Thousand Angel Red Skins Embrace Creator Warm Tonight Manifest Evident Crowded Fever Gracious Benevolent Ribbons Red Ribbon

Author:Tom Hanks

“Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.”

Giving Years Self Pleasure Thousand Skills Profession Self Confidence Fifty Links Thousand Years Theatrical

Book:True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

Source: True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

“The labels are not getting the returns they want from their PR. Plus, for every Taylor Swift there are a hundred thousand nobodies out there who are probably making better music. Self-releasing is the only way to go.”

Way Want Self Return Thousand Hundred Labels Plus

Author:Tony Visconti

“To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things.”

Self Earth Spirit Religion Spirituality Forget Study Thousand Ten Chaos Enlightened

Author:Dogen

“You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.”

“At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.”

“For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.”

People Trying May Said Two Self Communication Thousand Conscious Communicate

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write”

Source: Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand

“And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away going to pieces over you, weeping at the mere memory of you, losing her appetite, losing herself and self-respect - well, that's trophy enough for any guy's ego, huh?”

“It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.”

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.”

Ends Self Lost Felt Hours Animal Path Return Thousand Shadow Rain Stones Inevitable Sunshine Cycles Torment Moonlight Siddhartha

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.”

Life Real Self Secret Thousand Affair Mask Tranquility Guarding Cocoons

Book:A Secret Affair

Source: A Secret Affair

“I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before 'thin'. And frankly, I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls.”

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