As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
There can be dramas in your life and you can get over them and become someone. You don't have to wallow in… — Craig Revel Horwood Copy Share Image
Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills… — Graham Brown Copy Share Image
I really recognized a part of myself - my true self as a child - in performances like Val Kilmer and Nicolas… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Newtonian physics is over. You don't act on the world to change the world. You realize the world is a projection of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself. — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
I called record Prism because I actually finally let the light in and then I was able to create all these songs… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“[H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
Running will make you stronger, more disciplined & clear headed all of which will improve your professional output & expand your self-faith — Sarah Slean Copy Share Image
The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
“What is the direct cause of liberation? Dwelling in the Self (Swaramanata). The entire world dwells in the non-Self (par-ramanata).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that.… — Sheryl Swoopes Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself. — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image