Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job.… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
Those who have conquered themselves, the will is a friend. But it is the enemy of those who have not found the… — Bhagvadgeeta Copy Share Image
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In reality, no one is indeed at fault (doshit). When prakruti (relative self) is the doer, the Self is not responsible. When… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“God says that the one who does not find the worldly life boring at all, is not worthy of moksha [the ultimate… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility… — Brenda Strong Copy Share Image
The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore,… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.” — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
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When you make contact with your Higher Self, you'll have the support of Nature, which will allow for the manifestation of all… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The less you know, the more you will be known The less you want, the more you will have The less you… — Vivian Amis Copy Share Image
Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking. — Adi Da Copy Share Image
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Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
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