The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I was born with confidence in myself and who I am. Even when I was a little kid, I felt that, and… — Ricki-Lee Coulter Copy Share Image
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Change Yourself doesn't imply to be like everyone else, but to comply with everything that helps to be your true self. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities,… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
“When the wrong belief [of ‘I am Chandubhai’] goes away, the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] goes away. Inner burning is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The mind works like a radar. If you try to destroy the mind, you will become absent minded. The mind takes you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like,… — Ellen Muth Copy Share Image
That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“Egoism is harmful, the moment one realizes that then everything will become straightforward. The ego is not worth protecting.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's fial destination - the complete and merciless devaluation of self.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Neither the good nor the true is self-realizing, so it is not generally a sufficient explanation of why people believe that X… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one's self on the results of personal effort when the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“My outsides are precise and unreliable. The illusion of self is increasingly purposeful. A sort of erasure. Inside of me, a flex.… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“True humility comes when, in the, light of God, we have seen ourselves to be nothing, have consented to part with and… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body. — Susannah Constantine Copy Share Image
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The ego is constantly comparing itself to others. It has us measuring our self-worth against the looks, wealth, and social status of… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image