Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
I've been my normal self during pregnancy. I want other women who get nervous and anxious to experience the same comfort as… — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“What is kshayak samkit? There is no awareness as the non-Self (parparinati) whatsoever, only the awareness as the Self (Swa-parinati) constantly prevails!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“The conflict stirred up by new ideas can be so devastating only because so much of human life is lived in the… — Kathleen Taylor Copy Share Image
Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much… — Noah Porter Copy Share Image
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate… — Bhikkhu Analayo Copy Share Image
The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves.… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you want to learn to trust your vibes, you must maintain a peaceful and relatively calm attitude. When you're tense, nervous,… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or… — Shoma Morita Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is any specific way to handle emotional pain. Loved ones, music, and self-medicating seem to help me. — Mpho Koaho Copy Share Image
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Don't beat your self up if u did something wrong love your self because when u do u will be happy and… — Mercedes Copy Share Image
We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is… — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting… — Cyril Ponnamperuma Copy Share Image
Self peace is the greatest love of all, cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding and accepting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I always try to look at the episode overall, and try to figure out where I can add something that's a little… — Meaghan Rath Copy Share Image
I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self"… — Masahisa Goi Copy Share Image
I always thought, if I was gonna make a kids show, I would want to make something that my own 12-year-old self… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
It gives the guys confidence and self-belief. Two or three years ago I think we would have lost it. The confidence that… — Kieran Crowley Copy Share Image
