"The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them."

-- Bhikkhu Analayo

#Honesty Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Deception Quotes

“One particular aspect of Siddharthaâ€™s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any knowledge of number. How must he have felt, then, to see crowds of people mingling in the streets? Before that day he would not have believed that so many people existed in all the world. And what wonder it must have been to discover flocks of birds, and piles of stones, leaves on trees and blades of grass! To suddenly realise that, his whole life long, he had been kept at armâ€™s length from multiplicity.”

Source : Daniel Tammet (2012). “Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives”, p.122, Hachette UK
“I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.”

Source : "Pro-Bush Files in Florida System". August 08, 2001.
“I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.”
“There is a universal urge to rethink our spirituality in order to give us a new sense of security.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.”

Source : James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”
“So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2010). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
“You should have left him to wander,â€ Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised. â€œWould you?â€ he asked, and Svengal hesitated. At the end, Toshak had fought well and that counted for a lot of Skandians. â€œNo,â€ he admitted.”
“Youâ€™re nice to me because you think Iâ€™m pretty?â€ â€œAnd because you have brown eyes. Iâ€™m a sucker for big old brown eyes.”

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