Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed. — Sidney Jourard Copy Share Image
Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world. — John Medina Copy Share Image
Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens. — John Agard Copy Share Image
The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the… — Adam Goucher Copy Share Image
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I'm never a fan of the sociopathic kind of reviewing, people who are sort of self-immolating and have social problems or whatever,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
“All troubles, afflictions, and ultimately birth and death follow the same highway out of one’s own unmoving perfect self-nature.” — Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au Copy Share Image
The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The original 'Artist's Way' focused on the nurturing of the self. The 'Artist's Way for Parents' focuses both on nurturing the self… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“He who is controlled by objects Loses possession of his inner self: If he no longer values himself, How can he value… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
True ecstasy is stepping out of the bondage of the time-bound, space-bound world. We long to be free of fear and limitation.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Peace must begin within self before there can come action or self application in a way to bring peace-even in thine own… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I used to be super self-conscious about my height. I mean, going everywhere and someone just looking at you - you're never… — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
“Prakruti (relative self) does not improve or come under control through fear or intimidation. Fear or intimidation is what has given rise… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice — Maryam Jameelah Copy Share Image
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom,… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself. — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
“Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Being self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside. It starts with the rest of the world and leads back to you.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
