The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I think when you're live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between a Gnani (the enlightened one) and agnani (The one with the wrong belief)? The Gnani is free… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
“Renunciation and saiyam are two different things. Renunciation is where one gives up all marital ties, parental ties, financial ties and material possessions. What… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
We live in an epidemic of self-hatred. I see it daily with people coming at me, and they do it to everybody,… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Most people don't walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it's unbearable to… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
I had opportunities to play with other people and give my self some sort of security, but for some reason I wanted… — Bill Orcutt Copy Share Image
I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
I moved to Europe and was able to take time and really explore who I was and who I wanted to be.… — Mischa Barton Copy Share Image
Revolution begins with the self, in the self… We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I was terrified of growing up to become the anti-me, maturing into a woman whom I would not recognise and who wouldn't… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Without the renewed mind, we will distort the Scriptures to avoid their radical commands for self-denial, and love, and purity, and supreme… — John Piper Copy Share Image
But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
