Self-Conflict

(231 votes)   The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.

Thurman W. Arnold

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(208 votes)   What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(206 votes)   Success has made failures of many men.

Cindy Adams

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(151 votes)   The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(148 votes)   Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(143 votes)   More will mean worse.

Martin Amis
1949-, British Author

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(140 votes)   When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

Walter Russell

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(135 votes)   A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(106 votes)   The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself -- where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Clark Moustakas
Humanistic Psychologist

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(101 votes)   A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(98 votes)   What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Joseph Wood Krutch
1893-1970, American Writer, Critic, Naturalist

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(93 votes)   When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

Sir Frederick Browning

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(83 votes)   The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

Richard M. DeVos
1926-, American Businessman, Co-founder of Amway Corp.

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(76 votes)   A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(76 votes)   Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write down critical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts are untrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Robert J. Mckain

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