Black people cannot and will not become integrated into American society on any terms but those of self-determination and autonomy. — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
It is a tremendous freedom to get rid of all self-considerat ion and learn to care about only one thing-the relationship between… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Self-evaluation is hard, and it starts with me, and it falls on my shoulders, and I'm responsible. But at the end of… — Will Muschamp Copy Share Image
Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
False liberty is also a reason that people fabricate doctrines that say that you don't need to suffer. One such doctrine is… — Johan Oscar Smith Copy Share Image
As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets?… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot drop the ego. Once you start trying to drop the ego you will get in a very deep mess; you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Human self-righteousness denies the need for the saving, enabling grace of Christ. Human righteousness embraces the cruelest of Satan's lies, that a… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“Fearlessness (nirbhayta) arises through a Self that is free of doubt. After becoming free of doubt, asangata (a state of absolute separation)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word. — Sebastian Franck Copy Share Image
Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance… It… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of self is one of the most important ideas in The Art of War. It is imperative that you know your… — Grant Lichtman Copy Share Image
I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will burn only what… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of the [five] senses (indriya gnan) creates all kinds of intents. Knowledge beyond senses (ati-indriya gnan) doesn’t allow any intent to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Self is nirvishayi (without any sense pleasure); penance-renouncing are vishayas (sense pleasure). No vishaya has the Self (Soul) in it; Self is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation. — William H. Douglas Copy Share Image
In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I… — Kate del Castillo Copy Share Image
Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I really wanted to take her photo, so I walked up to the nearest adult and asked, 'Does she belong to you?'… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image