“No one would take me just as I was, no one loved me; I shall love myself enough, I thought, to make… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience"… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
At the gym, men are just as self conscious and check themselves out in the mirror just as much as women do.… — Chuck Hughes Copy Share Image
You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we… — Teresa Giudice Copy Share Image
For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Success isn't based on 'look what I can do!' but more on an inner sense of self and believing you have something… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
“My sense of self hinges upon the belief that what I do matters. That belief has compelled me to venture far from… — Finbarr O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
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I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we didn't have this super-skinny, flawless image to compete with. I find it unfortunate that young women… — Kellee Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm from the Midwest, and I was raised a boy. If you told my 17-year-old self that when you turn 40, you're… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
One thing I'm recognizing more and more in myself - and looking to change - is going down more of a self-destructive… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
No, I don’t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don’t know yet… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
EVERYONE RUNS IN THEIR LIFE FOR THEIR ATTITUDES ALONG WITH FINANCIAL EFFORTS FOR THEIR FAMILY AND FOR THEIR NEAR AND DEAR ...BUT… — Sudhakar Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The everyday brain could be dubbed "the baseline brain," because it operates at the minimum functioning to keep you alive and healthy.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long -… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness,… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“Your false self is the accumulation of all the voice you have internalized from other people-parents and friends who want you to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Weakened anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul) is called religion and absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is called (True)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
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