Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion.… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“The ego isn't a bad thing. If we didn't develop a strong ego, a strong sense of self, we wouldn't be able… — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
More than ever, we express ourselves with what we buy and how we use what we buy. Extensions of our personality, totems… — Seth Copy Share Image
In all the people I meet - though some may be governed by the self-centered nature and may not know their potential… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry,… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Who do you imagine you are? Imagine there's a version of you that sees all of it. A version that knows when… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The nature of pudgal (non-Self body complex, complex of intake and output) is to go down and the nature of the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“There is a phase of melancholy—a phase that has sloughed all urgency—that seems to me always a revelation of that ancient, familiar… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential… — John Galt Copy Share Image
For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“Permanent Knowledge is itself the Self indeed. The Self is Knowledge and that indeed is the absolute Self. There is no need… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ego is goal-oriented. The ego is hankering for the future. It can hanker even for the other life, it can hanker… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Wherever one says, ‘I am, I am’, that is all mithyatva (delusion, wrong vision & wrong knowledge). There is no problem in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion,… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes,… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image