Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. | Thomas Merton quote, HD Wallpaper
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. | Thomas Merton quote, HD Wallpaper
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. (Thomas Merton)
Christ does not force our will, He only takes what we give Him. But He does not give Himself entirely until He sees that we yield ourselves entirely to Him. | Teresa of Ávila quote HD Wallpaper
Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself. | L. Ron Hubbard quote HD Wallpaper
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the ones we cherish about ourselves. | Thomas Merton quote HD Wallpaper
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something. | Samuel Beckett quote HD Wallpaper
Modern man thinks he loses something – time – when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it. | Erich Fromm quote HD Wallpaper
Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe. | Winston Churchill quote HD Wallpaper
Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny. | Mahatma Gandhi quote HD Wallpaper
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live. | Hans-Georg Gadamer quote HD Wallpaper
We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others. | Thomas Merton quote HD Wallpaper
A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy. | Thomas Merton quote HD Wallpaper
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. | Napoleon Hill quote HD Wallpaper
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. | Erich Fromm quote HD Wallpaper
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined. | Peter F. Drucker quote HD Wallpaper
We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy. | Charles H. Spurgeon quote HD Wallpaper
I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? | Walt Whitman quote HD Wallpaper
Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself. | Thomas Merton quote HD Wallpaper
If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. | Ray Bradbury quote HD Wallpaper
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. | Mark Twain quote HD Wallpaper
Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, ‘What do I really, really, really want? ’ You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won’t believe it. | Elizabeth Gilbert quote HD Wallpaper
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. | Aristotle quote HD Wallpaper
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. | Thomas Stephen Szasz quote HD Wallpaper
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. | Khalil Gibran quote HD Wallpaper
We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become. | Earl Nightingale quote HD Wallpaper
Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they’ve never seen before, something that does not yet exist. | Rosabeth Moss Kanter quote HD Wallpaper
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air. | Thomas Merton quote HD Wallpaper
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves. | Thomas Merton quote HD Wallpaper
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. | Thomas Jefferson quote HD Wallpaper
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself. | Leo Buscaglia quote HD Wallpaper
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. | Stephen Fry quote HD Wallpaper
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. | Rainer Maria Rilke quote HD Wallpaper
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. | Mahatma Gandhi quote HD Wallpaper
