A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers. — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Which God has sent us all / thecreator of the world, often people say / think of others before themselves understood later,… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
“With age comes self-awareness, or something that looks like self-awareness, and so I try to be on the lookout for patterns of… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that,… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame,… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence . — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
The biggest thing is that self-confidence, that I knew what I was capable of. I never lost that. Obviously, you doubt it… — Serge Gnabry Copy Share Image
The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“When one is attracted towards a woman; it is ‘asakti’ [infatuation]. But when the soul [relative self] gets engrossed into it; that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal'… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way -… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
“If in your vision, you see the soul then, you become the parmatma (absolute supreme Self) and if in your vision, you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image