Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much… — Noah Porter 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I wake up right about the mid-afternoon, With the sun in the sky but night's coming soon, And I walk to the… — Johnny 3 Tears Copy Share Image
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or… — Oliver E. Williamson Copy Share Image
All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important… — Genie Francis Copy Share Image
When I did The X-Files, there was certainly less of that because the script was as it was and it was such… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Chances are if you find yourself caught up in a political foofaraw at work, or in some family squabble at home, it's… — Jason Seiden Copy Share Image
Parents still have primary responsibility for raising children, but they must have the power to do so in ways consistent with their… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-expression is something that you've crafted, something that you've found. You've practiced on that piano for hours, you didn't hang out with… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I have peanut M&M's up there." "Not my style" "Raisinets." "Feh." "Sam Adams." Thor narrowed his eyes. "Cold?" "Downright icy." Thor crossed… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love… — Theodor Reik Copy Share Image
