Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Everyone wants dignity. And today the mission of HOPE is ‘silver rights,’or making the free enterprise system work for the least of… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“The ego is an amazing mechanism. You don't need to fight it back. You just need to realize that you'll come back… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls!… — Basilea Schlink Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The best way for parents to go about acquiring a mind-set of self-reflective parenting will be different for different individuals. Some people… — Timothy Carey Copy Share Image
Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money!… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity,… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness. — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The summit, which is set up to educate people about managing their money and protecting their income, leads to empowerment of self,… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
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“Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. — Dean Mitchell Copy Share Image
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Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
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