Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of… — Mooji Copy Share Image
It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When something bad happens is when you really learn. It causes self-examination, it causes you to take a look at yourself. You… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I do know that some people believe that I see gender as a "choice" rather than as an essential and firmly fixed… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ.… — Elizabeth A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is no need to find a solution. 'You' just have to keep Seeing! Keep Seeing how much the anger has increased,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
... the core of sin is a lack of self-esteem. ... Sin is psychological self-abuse. ... the most serious sin is one… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by… — Mooji Copy Share Image
The people in Miami are so different from anywhere else I've been in America. They're so down to earth, really friendly, and… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
“The personal ego identifies with a very limited part of the self and prevents you from recognizing the largeness of who you… — Russell Anthony Gibbs Copy Share Image
The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
No one really needs me," he says, and there is no self-pity in his voice. It's true his family doesn't need him.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer… — Bill Reid Copy Share Image
Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Ego is more interested in proclaiming its existence than in basking in the limitless energy of real spirituality. I entreat you to… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care,… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not regret too much the choices you have made in the past, Gabriel," she said, aware that she was using his… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
These various forms appear different in shape and size, yet they are of a single essence. . . . The Sixth Patriarch… — Dennis Merzel Copy Share Image
