The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the… — Louis Zamperini Copy Share Image
Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
I think that at the time, when I was first pregnant, it was hard to make the transition from being totally self-involved… — Leslie Mann Copy Share Image
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“One has to understand the line of demarcation between the Self and the Non-Self from Gnani Purush (the enlightened one). His explanation… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners… — J. Neil Schulman Copy Share Image
Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so… — Alvin Lustig Copy Share Image
“Real means elemental (tattva). Relative means circumstantial (avastha). With elemental vision (tattva drashti), the value of circumstances disappears. If the elemental vision… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival. — William Powell Copy Share Image
“We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many,… — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so… — Peter Hollingworth Copy Share Image
If you stop comparing yourself with others and see your image on the mirror you will realize how amazing you are. — Nishant Grover Copy Share Image
The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while,… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self -… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don't have a job you have to… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation. — Bryan Fogel Copy Share Image
Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
Self analysis is; where we have to be honest with our own self, keeping others point of views and feeling in mind,… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a dad. I just can't wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to… — Josh Duhamel Copy Share Image
Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength. — Laozi Copy Share Image
It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live… — Wesley J. Smith Copy Share Image
“The Knowledge that does not manifest into conduct; that is not Knowledge at all, it is ignorance (aGnan). Gnan [true Knowledge] is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image