Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Once a vegan, we are always so, because our motivation is not personal and self-oriented, but is based on concern for others… — Will Tuttle Copy Share Image
I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's… — Kit Williamson Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Having a strong sense of self is fundamental to you, no matter what you're doing. I don't care if you're a stay… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Emotional control is essential for attaining higher levels of mind. The thing that the teacher looks for in a student is the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the teen years, we often confuse self-image with self-esteem. Teenagers are very influenced by the image others have of them. All… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“A child is a part of the self, and of the loved partner; a representation of generations past; the genes of the… — Beverly Raphael Copy Share Image
If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic." 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive… — Choa Kok Sui Copy Share Image
Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research. — James R Newman Copy Share Image
Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
Lend.” “Lend?” Raquel asked. “Yes, as in, lend me your self.” He shimmered into Raquel again. “Why not Borrow?” I asked. “Better… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I'm the laziest person - that's my normal self. When I'm hanging around my house, I literally look like a tramp. I… — Suki Waterhouse Copy Share Image
I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure. — Socrates Copy Share Image
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined. — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis,… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image