The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
“The relative (vyavahaar) is worldly, dramatic [as one would in a drama, not real]; and the Self (Nischay) is beyond the world,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do… — Witness Lee Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Self Discipline is when you have enough time to rest and sleep but chose instead to stay awake and do things that… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we didn't have this super-skinny, flawless image to compete with. I find it unfortunate that young women… — Kellee Stewart Copy Share Image
“Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be… — Royden G. Derrick Copy Share Image
It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless.… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Sometimes you look at me and it's like all the bullshit gets stripped off and I'm left with what's underneath and I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot, ... So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener,… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“my identity and happiness hinged. It was now outward-looking, a self-conscious performance. I was asked to repeat the pleasure for people, again… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
All my life, my church, my family, my friends have always told me to have high self-esteem... to think well of myself.… — Shawn Bradley Copy Share Image
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the… — Alex London Copy Share Image
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of… — Abdullah Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One. — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
A true conception of the relation of the sexes will not admit of conqueror and conquered; it knows of but one great… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image