Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful. — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
“[...]you learn how much space there is between the way you want to be seen, the way you feel inside, and the… — Isa K Copy Share Image
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I did a film that I shot in 24 hours that was self-financed for $5,000. It was a feature called Looking For… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
Sometimes among our more sophisticated, self-styled intellectuals--and I say self-styled advisedly; the real intellectual I am notsure would ever feel this way--some… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your… — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real,… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
People want to will their self realization. They want to know what the right thing to do all the time is. There… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I'm finding my self worth. At 21, this is the very beginning, even though I feel so old. This is the time… — Jordyn Woods Copy Share Image
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith,… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“When there is God above you, there is no ultimate liberation (moksha) there. Where there is moksha, there is no God above… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves. — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
If you told my 13-year-old self that one day I'd be talking about how Tom Cruise and I had good chemistry, she'd… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of… — Sydney Thompson Dobell Copy Share Image
Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image