“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
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
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
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
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
After many years, I have come to this self-realization... No matter how many awards you win, nor number of things you achieve,… — Crystal Yang Copy Share Image
The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“Realize you have awesome people around you who want to love you. Let them. Show them you love them back. (Actions trump… — Kari Luna Copy Share Image
I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a… — Thomas Merton 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
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
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 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Enlightened view (samyak darshan) is that which shows you the ‘eternal’ (the pure soul), and deluded vision (mithya darshan) is that which… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and… — Philip Freneau Copy Share Image
If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
I try to act like I don 't care but deep down inside I know you know I m just trying to… — Sikhwetha Maanda Stanley Copy Share Image
When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
![“I like Nelly's [Ternan] quiet inner strength. I thought there was something about her predicament that I found interesting - that she didn't want to be a floozy mistress, a bit on the side, that she had more self-respect than that.” quote by Felicity Jones](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/556/felicity-jones-2070_bits_i-like-nelly-s-ternan-quiet-inner-streng_1186920.png)
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