Art is a great means of self-discovery. One of the things that appealed to me in the beginning was that it was… — Malcolm Morley Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not everyone is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
“I've always believed that we don't choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is something in these moments of crisis that is really extraordinary about humanity and human beings' resilience and the way in… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job.… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
Those who have conquered themselves, the will is a friend. But it is the enemy of those who have not found the… — Bhagvadgeeta Copy Share Image
I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The second of our Lord's two great commandments carries a double charge: 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself' (Matt. 22:39). Therefore,… — Russell M. Nelson 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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