I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone… — Kristy Swanson Copy Share Image
We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear.… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something… — John Caples Copy Share Image
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. — John Keats Copy Share Image
A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a… — Ivan Chermayeff Copy Share Image
And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Samkit (awareness of ‘I am pure Soul’) is a vision. The moment one’s vision turns (from ‘I am Chandubhai’ to ‘I am… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“There is strife (trouble) the moment one enters the worldly life and bliss the moment one enters the Self [the Soul].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Increasingly we're seeing these ultra-partisan sites getting larger and larger readerships because people are self-selecting themselves into communities. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity? — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed.… — Fred L. Turner Copy Share Image