I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Patriotism can be good or bad. Knee-jerk patriotism can be very bad. I'm patriotic almost to the point of self-consciousness, but I… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
“Everything you see—including yourself—must travel through your own lens. The problem is, your lens is tainted by your experiences, your beliefs, and,… — Travis Bradberry Copy Share Image
“You think there's a real difference between 'self' and 'other.' But 'self,' what you call yourself, and what you call 'other' are… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I don't allow chivalry to die, on my part, but as far as guys taking care of their woman, and, making sure… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would happen,… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
“The smallest solution to purify the chit is to have a darshan (to see from near) and to become acquainted with a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
Stop smiling!” she ordered. “I can see you, Carter. Oh…and, uh, hullo, Walt.” The pot monster made squeaky grinding noises as it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Spirituality is a journey inward that connects the Self to yourself. When you know who you are from the inside out, when… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents,… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I make mistakes. I have regrets. I hate being alone. I'm always late. I hate school. I never call anyone back. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Energy of pudgal [that which charges and discharges, complex of intake and output] is used in knowing the knowledge of ignorance based… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
This one question-'What do I know for certain?'-is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Failure is all a matter of perspective. Think of all the people you admire. I guarantee you they all failed at one… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
A man of understanding, a man who understands himself and others, always feels compassion. Even if somebody is an enemy you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Thinking is the subtlest form of self-polemics, the art of a certain finesse in psychological self-vivisection and self-crucifixion (Hegel of course called… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image