Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me. — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process. — Kitty Ferguson Copy Share Image
I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I dont have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true self. His search for happiness is an unconscious search for his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
“It's funny, because I had thought, living through those first two months after the night at the lake, that the great crisis… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
New Self, New World is an extraordinary work—an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world’s great wisdom traditions and the majestic… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“What does our Akram Vignan (step-less Science of Self-realization) say? It says one should recognize the intrinsic nature of everything [element]. Moreover,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man… From poverty and obscurity, by labor… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
“Who is worthy of Moksha? When one says exactly as his mind thinks, and also acts like that, when he becomes like… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto. — Bono Copy Share Image
“To have 'Known' means that dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') goes away. But in this case, dehadhyas has not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly,… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Bud, my self-defense and combat skills teacher, was still trying to get me to learn knife fighting. "Silver knives! Painful and sometimes… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think as a mature artist, you're probably always trying to undo the compromises of one's self [in general]. It's not necessarily… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image