It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with projecting this false self to the outside world during these early striving years, so long as it… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“What is this self inside us, this silent observer, Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us And urge us to futile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
When you become successful and a depression or any other unfavorable circumstance arises which causes you a loss or defeat, act on… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“I said just let me try one more time and she said, "THAT'S ENOUGH, ISABEL," again, and she could just say it… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
No its you," she said. How far away her voice sounded, as though it had traveled to London already, ahead of her.… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If you wish others to respect you, you must show respect for them...Everyone wants to feel that he counts for something and… — Ari Kiev Copy Share Image
“When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy… — Roger Youderian Copy Share Image
I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
“When everywhere things looks the same, it is called Gnan (True Knowledge). Whether one is made to sit near the sewers of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I'm self-critical but also, I'm not a very modest person. I'm self-critical in the lead-up to showing anyone anything. You know how… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
“Know your self package to the core. Never lose the strength of assets, your values, what identifies and separates you, what makes… — Eveth Colley Copy Share Image
When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is… — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
“...a marriage with Christ at the center of it pulls you right out of yourself. It teaches each partner, the husband and… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness.… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
Looking relevant, modern, timely and appropriate in terms of your age, body type and lifestyle is not only about the joy of… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
Life is conspiring in your favor. It may not always look that way, but it is, I assure you. Everything that is… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
