I know what it's like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot,… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact… — Ernest Lawrence Copy Share Image
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no love like a mother’s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their… — Francis C Farley Copy Share Image
Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish. — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“When does the ‘voluntary’ part (of the Self) arise? It is when one attains the awareness of [the answer to], ‘Who am… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me,… — Erich von Stroheim Copy Share Image
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Violent intent (Hinsak bhaav) is indeed worldly life (sansar). When there is no Violent intent (hinsak bhaav) within us while the worldly… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Yes! Ha ha ha ha! Yes!” All I saw were the pictures in my head. I was in the pictures, and I… — Richard Roberts Copy Share Image
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
Bealer has a number of reasons for thinking that a naturalistic epistemology is self-undermining. Let me focus on one of these. (I've… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
I like to make sure I don't sing songs that are like self hating and feeling sorry for yourself 'cause that's not… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured, and that place is only within ourselves. A place to clean… — Cliff Robertson Copy Share Image
“From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant,… — Beth Johnson Copy Share Image
The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing. — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image