The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
What we do is inherently self-centered and sort of narcissistic. It's hard to really be thinking about myself all of the time… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
“Why is self confidence arrogant? Why is self-depreciation considered modesty? I worked my ass off to be able to have a high… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
[On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don’t be afraid to stand firm on the decisions that you make. Trust… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to… — David Richo Copy Share Image
I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher...is something far more than a learning… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government. — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be? — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Self-love is an incredible equalizer. When self love is running the show, the over giver learns to honor their own yes’s and… — Christina Marie Copy Share Image
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Let your body call you back into yourself, into your most deeply embodied self. Land, dive, soar. Find the crumbs that lead… — Cheryl Pallant Copy Share Image
“The whole world is absorbed in the intellect. Only when one moves away from the intellect and comes into the Light of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Maintaining self & non-self wisdom (judgment) of ‘this is Mine (of the True Self) and this is of the non-Self’ is the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The reason we do our art is to connect with people and talk about our journey, all those things get amplified when… — Snow Tha Product Copy Share Image
The very lack of opportunity the group faces creates a self-defeating cycle and puts pressure on members to limit their aspirations. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
When I came to Bengaluru, I had just joined college and there was a sting in me to be independent and find… — Shraddha Srinath Copy Share Image
You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage]. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Don't kid yourself and expect an unrealistic Hollywood fairytale. The truth is that in the real world, being in love is not… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
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