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• Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the "struggle for social justice." What is condemned is "total war," which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Peace, War

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• There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Practice, Two, Safety

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

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• To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Sympathy, Profound, Desire

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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• Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Sydney J. Harris (1982). “Pieces of Eight”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Lying, Order

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• Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

  Thomas Huxley

  Friendship, Appreciate, Noble

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• Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Self, Knowing

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• To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Reality, Psychics

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.143, Penguin

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• Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Strong, Business, Giving

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.38, Penguin

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• Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Business, Goal

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.48, Penguin

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• One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sadness, Emotional, Yield

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• The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

  Natalia Makarova

  Dance, Running, Spiritual

  Natalia Makarova, Gennady Smakov, Dina Makarova (1979). “A dance autobiography”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

  Liv Ullmann

  Inspirational, Motivational, Healthy

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• Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.

  Paul Tournier

  Retirement, Years, Giving

  Paul Tournier (2012). “Learn to Grow Old”, p.13, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. "The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth" (Psm. 145:18). Worship that is not based on God's Word is but an emotional encounter with oneself.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Heart, Exercise, Emotional

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• Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

  Philip Guston

  Thinking, Mind, Vision

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.281, Univ of California Press

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• Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons. Cherish and burnish this faculty of seeing crudely, simply, artlessly, ignorantly; of seeing like a baby or a lunatic, who lives each moment by itself and tarnishes by the present no remembrance of the past.

  Arnold Bennett

  Baby, Memories, Past

  Arnold Bennett, Sir Newman Flower (1932). “Delenda est * BOD : staff use only”

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• Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.

  Nelly Mazloum

  Dance, Stem

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• To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Leadership, People, Different

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• To bring oneself to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

  Thomas Buckner

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Friendship, Work, Voice

  Radio address on his 90th birthday, 8 Mar. 1931

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• The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.

  Aldous Huxley

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Journey

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• To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Able, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation

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• There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

  May Sarton

  Acceptance, Balance, Asking

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Yoga, Wish, Unreal

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.72, Rajpal & Sons

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