"Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone……" — P D Ouspensky
"Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it."
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47 Quotes by P D Ouspensky
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The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.
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When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to…
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Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things…
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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or…
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