Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way -… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
“If in your vision, you see the soul then, you become the parmatma (absolute supreme Self) and if in your vision, you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The biggest thing is that self-confidence, that I knew what I was capable of. I never lost that. Obviously, you doubt it… — Serge Gnabry Copy Share Image
But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood,… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
We, as women, often believe that we have to endear ourselves by acting modestly. But that leads personnel directors to think: Anyone… — Kristina Schroder Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I would get printouts of what was being written about me that week. At first it was… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“And I Said To My Soul, Be Loud Madden me back to an afternoon I carry in me not like a wound… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I… — Heath Ledger Copy Share Image
A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
“Your choices of which clothes to wear or which soda to drink, where you live, which school to attend and what to… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“When one is attracted towards a woman; it is ‘asakti’ [infatuation]. But when the soul [relative self] gets engrossed into it; that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal'… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame,… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence . — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Contemplative practices have a way of gracefully gerrymandering the borders that once rigidly defined self and other.” — Kyle Parton Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Indriya drashti (sensorial/sense-based/physical vision) creates attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh), enlightened vision (samkit drashti) sees only the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Not knowing one’s real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image