If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
He who has learnt to control his tongue has attained self-control in a great measure. When such a person speaks he will… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all… — Rhonda Britten Copy Share Image
“I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain inrelief; they assumed unusual… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
“The Self (Atma) is itself in the form of Science (Vignan swaroop). That is why it indeed Sees science everywhere. There is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don’t judge him now. Like most of us, he wasn’t what he thought he was. But thankfully, for most of us,… — Emanuel Derman Copy Share Image
“Besides, I was myself the one who spoke to me. I sat and stood at the same time, hushed and spoke and… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“The foundation of this world is indeed knowledge (gnan). It is on the basis of knowledge that living beings function! Is it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The thought of the presence of God and the spirit of worship will in all my actions have as their immediate object… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
“...I think a lot of my misery was me hating me, and hating me made me hate everyone else. I felt like… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The voices of self-reliance are many and deceptive. In some way, they greet you every day. Their deceptive whispers started in the… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death,… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image
There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Trauma survivors have a deficiency in their capacity to regulate emotions - they're too prolonged and too intense and too negative. As… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
My self-image it still isn't that alright. No matter how famous I am, no matter how many people go to see my… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
The third doorway is the Doorway of Unconditional Self-love, which corresponds to the energy center located in the solar plexus area. As… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before… — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Asana is a very important part of life. It keeps you healthy, strong, and energetic. And it enables you to discover and… — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
There is something in these moments of crisis that is really extraordinary about humanity and human beings' resilience and the way in… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
