Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this… — Nonie Darwish Copy Share Image
“You see how self-love keeps us from knowing our own defects of mind and body. Our reason tries in vain to show… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
[Degree in English] gave me a little more self-confidence, to know that I'd managed to complete something like that. — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Life is what we made out of it's self, to fall into the darkest of them all and to be able to… — Mariny Copy Share Image
What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it's not about you. It's about the big picture.… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I don't need anybody's money, it's nice.I'm totally self-funding my campaign, and the people like that, because you know, when they come… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is… — Pierre Jean George Cabanis Copy Share Image
Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism.… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Self belief will always push fear away, but you need to always practice self belief otherwise fear will come back and tap… — Mark Bouris Copy Share Image
An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Your real home isn't your patterned self. It isn't your thinking. It isn't your feeling. Your real home is the deepest within… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
I had a complicated upbringing, so I had to rely on myself and figure out what that meant and rely on my… — Jaz Sinclair Copy Share Image
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
Bring your whole self to work. I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Deepak Chopra, look at him. He's probably the most successful self-help guru in the world. I don't think he's struggling for any… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I think it's very interesting that [doctors] privilege the self that is saying, "I don't want to die," but want to discount… — Katy Butler Copy Share Image
We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
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