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What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
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I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action,… — Seth Copy Share Image
The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
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It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The literal meaning of "yoga" is "union," "integration," "reconnection." But in the context of practice, yoga is a way of gaining access… — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
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Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes,… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow. — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
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A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing… — Kenwa Mabuni Copy Share Image
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
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When you get to know your self, you get to know everyone and everything on the planet. — Rakim Copy Share Image
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One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
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The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
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