True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out -… — Henry James Copy Share Image
'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Knowing your true self will help you work more effectively to reach your goals. It will lead you down the road to… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It's… — David Goggins Copy Share Image
Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
People always say theres no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think theyre right, because it seems self-evident: nobodys going… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
Your biggest enemy isn't always the one holding the gun waiting to pull the trigger or the one you think hating or… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Had I a careful and pleasant companion that should show me my angry face in a glass, I should not at all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Never for a moment believe that the great body of the citizens of any State or States can deliberately intend to do… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Truthfully, you're not your audience, so all that self-consciousness and all that - it gets in the way of you actually just… — Zelda Williams Copy Share Image
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I… — Marina Keegan Copy Share Image
If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Whatever your religion is, it's to fully realize your potential of love. Is to have fully realized self love then you can… — David Koechner Copy Share Image
We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical. — Edna Longley Copy Share Image
We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
“All actions are of the non-Self complex (pudgal), they are of the prakruti (relative self) and they are not under Your control.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The Power of Self-Healing is your guide to transforming your brain and body in just 3 weeks. I have seen these principles… — Daniel Amen Copy Share Image
“Pure Knowledge (Shuddha Gnan) is the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma). Soul is a symbolic word. But one should have the ‘intuitive perception’… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Reading well makes children more interesting both to themselves and others, a process in which they will develop a sense of being… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
It's been difficult to find roles that are independent, strong, and self-assured; I always say I can't play the princess. I'm not… — Leven Rambin Copy Share Image
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. — Balthus Copy Share Image
We're so tribal in Britain about music. But my music - my guitar playing, the rhythms, et cetera - just express my… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight... For reasons we don't understand,… — Ann Shulgin Copy Share Image
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