Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If you really want something for Christmas and you're waiting for that special person to buy it for you... Buy it yourself!… — Joaquin Gonzalez Copy Share Image
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility. — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
We can improve our self- By understanding what upsets us, and for it we need to love our company instead complaining about… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Motivation never comes with the desire to be better than everybody else. It comes with the desire to be better than who… — Collins Hasty Copy Share Image
The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control.… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
“Now, when a new day dawns for us after the long night of darkness and the phoenix rises regenerated from its ashes,… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of course,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy. — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
the casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around… — Natalie Kusz Copy Share Image
Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a step beyond. You dissolve into the universe. The universe dissolves into you until there is no longer a difference.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
