Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.
– Idries Shah
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- O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.Not by finishing, but by transforming to infinite for infinite joy! – Debasish Mridha
- In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up. – Christopher Bram
- In order to answer the question -œWhere am I going?- engage in self-development, self-education and development of will and firmness – Sunday Adelaja
- Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it. – Idries Shah
- Destruction is a man’s will,Nevertheless Prevention is also a man’s will,Its a man’s choice to choose between Destruction and Prevention. 🙂 – Babu Rajan
- The greatest self are self-improvement, self-development and self-discovery. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. – Marlo Thomas
- The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man-¦ therefore increase your necessity. – Idries Shah
- Self-development is a contradiction in terms Personal development is the way. – Frank Ra Exstatica
- You are an infinite being with infinite love and infinite thoughts. – Debasish Mridha
- A man’s capacity is the same as his breadth of vision. – Idries Shah
- Self education leads to self-development and self-liberation. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Worry is a cloud which rains destruction. – Idries Shah
- Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. – Idries Shah
- Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception. – Michelle Templet
- We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
- The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. – Friedrich Engels
- Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction. – Richie Norton
- Many call this process ‘the destruction of nature.’ But it’s not really destruction, it’s change. Nature cannot be destroyed. – Yuval Noah Harari
- She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. – Curtis Sittenfeld
- Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine. – Idries Shah
- It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling. – Dale Carnegie
- The foundation of all personal development, actually, is self-acceptance and self-love. – Stephen Richards
- Permanent self-development and self-education are also very important – Sunday Adelaja
- To submit one’s self to one’s gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one’s gift – Sunday Adelaja
- self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Don’t underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction. – Tim Hawken
- Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom. – Mehmet Murat ildan
- What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. – George Eliot
- The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite. – George Leonard
- We are consciousness examining and expressing itself so that it can become increasingly aware of its infinite capacity for being and evolving. – Jay Woodman
- Sachin has infinite capacity for taking pains and still making runs. – Amit Kalantri
- Falling in love with a woman’s body is lust, with a woman’s mind is sense, with a woman’s heart is virtue, and with a woman’s soul is wisdom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man. – Idries Shah
- The most important result of the efforts of a man is the effort of self-development and continuous growth – Sunday Adelaja
- Anger may not have been derived from the Hindi word ‘angaar’ meaning Fire…however coincidentally both are equally destructive. – ketan r shah
- Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless. – Idries Shah
- He who knows himself, knows his Lord’ means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge. – Idries Shah
- Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence. – Idries Shah
- Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. – Idries Shah