...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
Not that I don't appreciate the rescue," Holt said. "But I'm forced to ask, in the interest of self-preservation ... exactly how… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or… — Gerald Moor Copy Share Image
Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but… — Jessica Capshaw Copy Share Image
Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“There is something more here than embarrassment at being praised. The strengths 'I' have are not admissible to the arena of ability… — Richard and Cobb Sennett Jonathan Copy Share Image
Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Maybe now, i've realized how, much of a pathetic human being I am. Maybe, I shouldn't of done what i've done. Maybe,… — Iimyotherdarkside Copy Share Image
There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your lower self sees you as the center of the universe- your higher self sees you as a cell in the body… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Han?” “Yeah, sweetie.” “How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?” “I don’t know, sweetie. Mostly… — Troy Denning Copy Share Image
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Never be ashamed from your self , always be proud with ur flaws , cuz somtimes flaws are helpful , like me… — Lana Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just ask me self why? Why do I hang out with the people I do? Why do I let them… — Cheyenne DeLaCruz Copy Share Image
If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this… — Greg Poehler Copy Share Image
People more think of me as a party animal. Which, I am a self-proclaimed party animal, but I'm also the hardest working… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be. — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
I know for me, when I would drink, I circumvented my own self-protection and my own judgment and my own discrimination -… — Alison Rosen Copy Share Image
“One is a husband as long as he is alive, but what if he is not alive? What if you get divorced… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
“Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Don't be tempted by the things your friends have, do, or like...You are not like them. Concentrate on doing what you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen.… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Of course one always has to follow international law. This was also the case in Crimea. According to the Charter of the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
