In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression… — Percy Cerutty Copy Share Image
“All that comes to an end is a vishaya [subject of pleasure]. That which does not come to an end, is the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant;… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style.… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
“The Self is not [in the form of] Knowledge, it is in the form of Science (Vignan swaroop). This world can be… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Loneliness could either go two way's. It might be what you exactly what you need at the time, To figure out something… — Simpleman Copy Share Image
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We need to concentrate on what's happening on the pitch. It's self-pride when we're on the pitch. We don't need to worry… — Scott McTominay Copy Share Image
The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the… — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves. — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s...You are more self-assured about… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control. — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally,… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a person who goes by what I feel like and almost no one can tell me what to do. It's always… — Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza Copy Share Image
Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in… — John C. Keats Copy Share Image
Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image