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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job.… — Anonymous 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
Death is inevitable from the perspective that, if you're done here on earth, you have completed what is necessary to have been… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If you shift your mindset to asking "How can I initiate change that's good for my family, and my community, and my… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
“There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
Know that you are God's beautiful child, always in God's hands. Accept God... accept God's protection... there is really no problem to… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
“You are the One seer of all: unattached, formless and witness of all you are. The Self is witness, all-pervading, One, actionless,… — Robert Wolfe Copy Share Image
In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In worldly terms, "This is good and this is bad," is spoken whereas in the language of the Lord, it is considered… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The entire worldly path is indeed a path to moksha - liberation. All living beings (jivas) are gradually going higher step by… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“Saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) cannot be attained through egoism. Renunciation can take place through egoism. In renouncing,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
