I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as… — Hakuin Ekaku Copy Share Image
“Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Contemplative practices have a way of gracefully gerrymandering the borders that once rigidly defined self and other.” — Kyle Parton Copy Share Image
“Indriya drashti (sensorial/sense-based/physical vision) creates attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh), enlightened vision (samkit drashti) sees only the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Oh my gosh! I was a hamster on the conditioned wheel of self-improvement. I never truly respected or valued my uniqueness as… — Penny De Villiers Copy Share Image
We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
“Not knowing one’s real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses… — Thomas Hale Copy Share Image
When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of… — Jim Fixx Copy Share Image
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every day you need to look yourself in the eye and ask yourself if this is what you should be doing with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“you ask me a question I'll give you an answer…but don't look at me when I say something you don't want to… — Turcois Ominek Copy Share Image
When you forget yourself and your fear, when you get beyond self-consciousness because your mind is thinking about what you are trying… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn’t predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did. — Cordelia Fine Copy Share Image
People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A part of her wanted to stop pushing herself, stop feeling compelled to rise to the occasion of being her best self.… — Katherine Morgan Schafler Copy Share Image
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If she’d learned anything about herself over the years it was that self-doubt inevitably led to self-destruction.” — Amanda Stevens Copy Share Image
Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy,… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
