To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to… — Muriel Beadle Copy Share Image
Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an ordering… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
There is a direct relationship between your own level of self-esteem and the health of your personality. The more you like and… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether our present system of popular education does not retard independent or self thinking as much as it promotes… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest… — Alante Kavaite Copy Share Image
Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain.… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are… — Anthony Collins Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed… — Seth Copy Share Image
The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are times when you're being judged on your appearance and you're not feeling your best self. It hurts, but as I… — Adwoa Aboah Copy Share Image
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character… — Plato Copy Share Image
Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
It was easy to blame other people for treating me in ways I didn't like, but now I was seeing that I… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
“To say, "I did it" is in the form of an 'evidentiary doer' (nimit), it is (to be understood) 'as an evidentiary… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Most kids who grow up in Alaska and spend a fair degree of time in the wilderness, grow up being pretty self-reliant.… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for… — Whoopi Goldberg Copy Share Image
Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Know that what appears to be Love for an 'other' is really Love of Self because 'other' doesn't exist. So this innermost… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
When people know you as one person, when in reality inside you are diffrent. its not that that your fake, its a… — Edward Shaylitsa Copy Share Image
Self-defense is so important to know in today's society. It's not just that you might get mugged. It's more for confidence. It's… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
The active, insatiate principle of self-love can alone supply the arts of life and the wages of industry; and as soon as… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God. I… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination -… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image