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| The test of maturity, for nations as well as individuals, is not the increase of power, but in the increase of self, self, self direction, and self transcendence. For in a mature society, man himself and not his machines or his organizations is the chief work of art. |
| by Lewis Mumford |
| It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap. |
| by Johann Von Goethe |
| Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. |
| by William Shakespeare |
| Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power. |
| by Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| In love, self-love is always at risk. |
| by Mason Cooley |
| The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakable egoism. |
| by H.L. Mencken |
| To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. |
| by Suzanne Necker |
| Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon. |
| by Jean Paul Richter |
| Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear. |
| by Isa Upanishad |
| He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. |
| by Bhagavad Gita |
| The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. |
| by Confucius |
| Independent self people (would be) a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future [...] (where) people will be defined by their associations. |
| by John Dewey |
| Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. |
| by Robert Frost |
| Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. |
| by Robert Frost |
| That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. |
| by Bhagavad Gita |
| The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics. |
| by Franklin Roosevelt |
| To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. |
| by William Shakespeare |
| Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. |
| by George Bernard Shaw |
| I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. |
| by Walt Whitman |
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