“He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
You can hide from the outside world and ur self or u can say screw it, I am just gonna be me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are emerging from the cocoon of your former self. There are no limits to the extent of the transformation that's possible… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem. — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What moves you, you move. That brings your sexuality into your being, through your heart, and that movement brings your being, through… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only… — Immanuel Hermann Fichte Copy Share Image
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“What is the definition of Gnan [true knowledge]? It is that which must be present without fail when needed. Who should be… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other:… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying,… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences. — Marshall Rose Copy Share Image
I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Our humanness is the part of us that we try and push away, that we don't want to see, that we don't… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
“Chanchad (restless, unsteadiness, unstill) cannot become acchad (still, steady) and acchad cannot become chanchad. One (The True Self) has to remain in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self -… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance,… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling,… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
Around when I turned 17 and I bought my own studio equipment and started recording myself, I kinda found my own voice.… — Kyle Copy Share Image
When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image