The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Everything he'd done with regard to her in the last three years had been calculated to foreclose the intensely personal sort of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
“Deep down, you know everything (including the bad stuff, unfortunately) is just your own personal brand of reality. I mean, you know… — Rajesh Goyal Copy Share Image
I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
In the creation of the federal government, the states exercised the highest act of sovereignty, and they may, if they please, repeat… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
“Does it make sense to boycott ourselves? Does it hold water to boycott the fluid course of our life? Is it consistent… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“If originality is a “sense of novelty and freshness” then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We… — Gabby Bess Copy Share Image
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business. Who is the person walking in front of you… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
“Not only is domination paid for with the estrangement of human beings from the dominated objects. but the relationships of human beings,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
Nothing poisons love more than honesty. If love lasts until the day we die, we will live without showing our real self… — Yang Gui-ja Copy Share Image
Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up-… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I was hanging around the hot girls once and after the fourth time they heard me make some kind of self-deprecating reference… — Esther Povitsky Copy Share Image
A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke.… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Who is the main ‘minister’ (component) responsible for proposing a resolution in the antahkaran (inner working complex comprised of the mind, intellect,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly.… — Chaka Khan Copy Share Image
So we are mocked by this world when we speak of God's coming judgment against all sin, and when we plead that… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without… — George Will Copy Share Image
Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of… — Terry Taylor Copy Share Image
Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I truly believe that forgiveness is the fast track to greater love and it's the path that can really heal all. We… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
In my real life I had to confront the sins of the father, but it's also a symbolic journey - a social,… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
