To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
[On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Someone asked me recently, "Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?" And the reason I don't is because… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only… — Arthur Hugh Clough Copy Share Image
This question haunted me all my life and suddenly it hit me: 'There is no self to realize. What the hell have… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
We have to get to the Self beyond its physical and mental instrumentalities to realize we are not fragile mortal beings; there… — Daya Mata Copy Share Image
Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen… — Alexander Gardner Copy Share Image
“This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end… — Kandi Dougherty Copy Share Image
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It like the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days.… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent… — William James Copy Share Image
It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how… — Jean Sylvain Bailly Copy Share Image
Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
…I noticed you don’t have any self-defense training…” “…I can handle myself just fine.” She stared at me for a long, uncomfortable… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“There is something more here than embarrassment at being praised. The strengths 'I' have are not admissible to the arena of ability… — Richard and Cobb Sennett Jonathan Copy Share Image
Like all other lonely or hungry things, ego loves the light. It sees light, and the possibility of being close to the… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Maybe now, i've realized how, much of a pathetic human being I am. Maybe, I shouldn't of done what i've done. Maybe,… — Iimyotherdarkside Copy Share Image
There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
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There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success,… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination,… — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
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