I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week,… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the… — Peter Koestenbaum Copy Share Image
Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
To be politically activated is to dare to care about the happiness of others and that is just about the most important… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the territory of… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant creature is also something tender,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but… — Graeme Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today.… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of… — William Temple Copy Share Image
The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, this is my nature, I can't help it - that… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures… — Sam Shoemaker Copy Share Image
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