“Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
You break free when you feel neither beneath anyone nor superior to anyone, when you shed the need to control other people,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Every human creates his own problems. Problems are ones private property and we shouldnt meddle into them self-initiatively. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of… — David Truman Copy Share Image
It seems to me there is less meanness in atheism, by a good measure. It seems that the spirit of religious self-righteousness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Every angel is terrifying. Through the darkness, they move silently... I will go down into death with you. I must go where… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Possessiveness isn’t unprecedented.’ ‘On the contrary – it’s as common as mud. But to recognise it in one’s self and chuck it… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart.… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
The thing you have to be on guard against, more than anything, is self-sabotage. You have to make sure you're not your… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Life is all about choices. Today, show compassion for others, think powerful thoughts, and exercise self control. — Bradford Winters Copy Share Image
In relationships 'Need' creates pressure on both sides. Whereas 'freedom' relaxes both sides allowing them to express their best sides and focus… — Edward Shaylitsa Copy Share Image
Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance. — Kate Ross Copy Share Image
“The relationship with the world is a relative one; it is not a real (tatvik; eternal) relation. If one becomes aware of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships. — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must… — Christy Mathewson Copy Share Image
The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Fear is a destructive emotion that can deal a fatal blow to any attempt on your part to build total self-confidence. If… — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
In a world of self indulgence your attitude is going to be your biggest obstacle because you're only concerned with yourself! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image