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Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung

Best, Darkness, Knowing

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer, Weakness, Confession

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
Dalai Lama

Else, Far, Concerned

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Best, Else

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

Show, Books, Shame

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, After, Else

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
Zig Ziglar

Positive, Powerful, Reading

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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus

Wise, Others, Errors

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

Power, Knowledge, Ignorance

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi

Strength, Soul, Belief

Peace is its own reward.
Mahatma Gandhi

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Groucho Marx

Life, Women, Him

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Heart, Matter

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass

True, Others, Rather

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

Good, Wise, Fool

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mahatma Gandhi

Service, Noblest, Sake

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, Why, Others

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis

Struggle, Same, Cannot

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Age, Enough, Old

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Yourself, Blame

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Until, Knows

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Swami Vivekananda

Cannot, Hand, Hands

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms

Health, Jealousy, Bad

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Zig Ziglar

Mind, Goal, Before

We must be our own before we can be another's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before, Another

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell

Religion, True, Another

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton

Mind, Hell, Place

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Swami Vivekananda

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Confucius

Men, Knowing, Ability

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
Paulo Coelho

Different, Become, Matter

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