Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
If you really want something for Christmas and you're waiting for that special person to buy it for you... Buy it yourself!… — Joaquin Gonzalez Copy Share Image
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility. — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
We can improve our self- By understanding what upsets us, and for it we need to love our company instead complaining about… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Motivation never comes with the desire to be better than everybody else. It comes with the desire to be better than who… — Collins Hasty Copy Share Image
The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation.… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Those who don't have a life filled with luxury may have a home filled with compassion, based on their choice to be… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“If the realization of the absolute Self (Parmatma) happens, then there is Samkit (right belief of 'I am pure Soul'). If One… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Muslims cannot be defeated by others. We Muslims are not defeated by our enemies, but instead, we are defeated by our own… — Sheikh Abdullah Copy Share Image
The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of… — Fred Couples Copy Share Image
You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again. — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
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