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“The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.”
dshefman James Allen quotes (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense (1912-20), 1855-1942)
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“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes (Russian novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature (1970), b.1918)
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“Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth”
dshefman James Allen quotes (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense (1912-20), 1855-1942)
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“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
James Allen quotes (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense (1912-20), 1855-1942)
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“Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.”
dshefman James Allen quotes (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense (1912-20), 1855-1942)
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“The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.”
dshefman James Allen quotes (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense (1912-20), 1855-1942)
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“I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.”
Javan quotes (Iranian born American Inventor, (invented gas laser 1960) b.1946)
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“When men, lost in the devious ways of error and self, have forgotten the "heavenly birth," ... they set up artificial standards by which to judge one another”
dshefman James Allen quotes (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense (1912-20), 1855-1942)
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“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”
James Allen quotes (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense (1912-20), 1855-1942)
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“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”
James Allen quotes (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense (1912-20), 1855-1942)
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“I cannot promise very much. I give you the images I know. Lie still with me and watch. We laugh and we touch. I promise you love. Time will not take that away.”
Yaddo Anne Sexton quotes (American Writer, 1928-1974)
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