Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that… — Plato Copy Share Image
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first… — Luis Marques Copy Share Image
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable… — Justin Frankel Copy Share Image
Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The quality of putting others before yourself, is a great way to build your self-esteem and to contribute to those who need… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of… — Valerie Steele Copy Share Image
I've always said that the most important thing is job creation. Jobs will earn people money and build self-confidence. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Just about the worst thing a leader can nurture in his heart is self-pity. And just about the worst thing a leader… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you. Where we’re unhurt is where we are false. Where we are wounded and… — Sara Gran Copy Share Image
I know personally that being a conservative minority is a test of character. Identity, after all, is an integral and cherished part… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated,… — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth. — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The words I AM are your sacred identification as God- your highest self. Take care how you use this terms because saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist…It… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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