I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Start listening to what you say. Are your comments and ideas negative? You aren't going become positive if you always say negative… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“En natt i lengst forsvundne tider våknet mennesket og så seg selv... da dyrene kom til sine vannhull, hvor han ventet dem… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
So, the path of the co-creator is to be awakened spiritually within, which then turns into your own deeper life purpose, which… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Researchers were surprised to find that people with strong self-control spent less time resisting desires than other people did. . . .… — Roy Baumeister Copy Share Image
“What is the measure of the fact that one has realized One's own state as the Self (nijswaroop)? It is in accordance… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide… — Larisa Alexandrovna Copy Share Image
The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You are present in your life on earth at this moment for the purposes of living, loving, learning, and growing. Be assured… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I love the discipline. I love the schedule of pushing your body to an extreme and getting it to a particular type… — Jessica Biel Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The crews that are going to be self-produced are going to make the great albums, as opposed to making these mix-tapes, these… — El-P Copy Share Image
Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There are all these things that you never know whether they're features or bugs- in a company or organization, or even in… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
But our waste problem is not the fault only of producers. It is the fault of an economy that is wasteful from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the… — William O. Douglas 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
