Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You yourself deserve your affection & love.To be your self means you are choosing to be positive & you commit to be… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the first sale is for the very first time in your life something written has value and… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time… — George Will Copy Share Image
“This path of 'Akram' (step-less path to Self-realization) is a diversion road, it is not a path where others views are refuted… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“... no one ever develops and achieves self-awareness in a vacuum, beyond all ears and systems. The period you grow up in… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to… — Amir Butler Copy Share Image
We have a God-given commission, but it is not a commission to be self-righteous know-it-alls- quite the contrary. Our work in God's… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Centuries of navel-gazing. Millennia of masturbation. Plato to Descartes to Dawkins to Rhanda. Souls and zombie agents and qualia. Kolmogorov complexity. Consciousness… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
To develop a more or less accurate self-image...is simply to gain a comprehensive awareness of those facets of yourself which you didn't… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Cut that in Three, which Nature hath made One , Then strengthen hyt, even by it self alone, Wherewith then Cutte the… — John Dee Copy Share Image
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Every man and woman alive is gifted by God in some special way. People who have a self-image of worth are going… — William Walton Copy Share Image
“There can never be a path to moksha unless the heart is content. Your heart should be satisfied in the path of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness...… — Sophie Gregoire Trudeau Copy Share Image
It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I want to develop a sense of self, values, morals, and then attract an audience based off those things, as opposed to… — Pokimane Copy Share Image
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image