...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Just remember, the desire to elevate one’s self at the expense of another is the mark of an insecure personality, so” — John Lyman Copy Share Image
The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive.… — Aaron Rodgers Copy Share Image
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
When we talk about Skill India Mission, we do not merely talk about filling the pockets of people. We want to instil… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and… — H. Richard Niebuhr Copy Share Image
There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe,… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious. — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior. — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
I don't watch anything I'm in. Not even on set. I won't go over to the monitor to watch what we've just… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
Self-judgment continues to arise - it's a strong habit - but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source. — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Women ... do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
