A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares,… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
It's funny because the most sane women I've ever met are my mom and my grandmothers. I think you have to be… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I truly believe happiness has a different meaning for everyone. But I also believe that the sense of self is the key… — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Enlightenment just means that you don't have a structural self. It means you've flipped through the gradated realities. Nothing binds, nothing clings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
“Not only is domination paid for with the estrangement of human beings from the dominated objects. but the relationships of human beings,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up-… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Nothing poisons love more than honesty. If love lasts until the day we die, we will live without showing our real self… — Yang Gui-ja Copy Share Image
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
I was hanging around the hot girls once and after the fourth time they heard me make some kind of self-deprecating reference… — Esther Povitsky Copy Share Image
Am talking to myself cause I am a self consultant,but bear in mind that to live is the rarest thing in the… — Armstrong Shonhiwa Copy Share Image
We all like to believe we are completely self-sufficient, but at the end of it all, we're all searching for a human… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Job security is a myth...it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable.… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy, outstanding accomplishment, and self-fulfillment seems to be falling in love with something -… — Ellis Paul Torrance Copy Share Image
...boredom is all about perception. It's a self-diagnosis, plain and simple. If you don't realize you're bored, you're not. — Susan Maushart Copy Share Image
You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
“Orito pictures the human mind that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been… — Masahisa Goi Copy Share Image
Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Shaking off restrictive chains requires action. They cannot be wished away. A declaration will never break chains. It requires commitment, self-discipline, and… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
