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Self Quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
- Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if…
- Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its…
- When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can…
- If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
- When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when…
- The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes…
- Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude…
- The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
- The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of…
- Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth)…
- Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a…
- The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.
- The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster