Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man… — George Will Copy Share Image
All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The principle of self-reliance grows out of a fundamental doctrine of the Church, that of agency. Just as each individual is accountable… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean… — Hans Børli Copy Share Image
If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
“NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECT My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!” — Allan Rufus Copy Share Image
Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. — George Packer Copy Share Image
I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is… — Adam Ferrara Copy Share Image
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about… — Greg LeMond Copy Share Image
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
