The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever… — Angie Stone Copy Share Image
Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved… — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals… The familybecame a special… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do! Your life mainly consists of 3 things! What you think,… — allan rufus Copy Share Image
I'm a bartender. I like recipes. They're concretes. Was the drink recipe for seduction one shot charm and two shots self-deception, shaken,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
One thing is common between animals and humans, they both live for self, I want to create a difference between, I want… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly? — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“To See and Know the relative (vyavahaar), is verily known as the Self (Atma). The one that engages in attachment and abhorrence… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
As a captain, I am concerned about my team and how I perform. I have hopes from my own self and very… — Shahid Afridi Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598” — Gurdieff Copy Share Image
You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was… — Alicia Witt Copy Share Image
I feel there is love and confidence in me somewhere and I want to find it. So far, music is the only… — Wesley Eisold Copy Share Image
