The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
“How can one go from good [auspicious state] to pure (state)? There are no words for it. It will happen when the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone.… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is the assurance that one is Vitaraag? The answer is, it is when no worldly things come to memory. Besides attaining… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don’t measure… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Self fulfillment thinks of how something serves me. Self development thinks of how something helps me to serve others. With self fulfillment,… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Demons frighten us because we set ourselves up to be frightened. We are overly attached to our reputations and possessions. When we… — Teresa Giudice Copy Share Image
It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“My sense of self hinges upon the belief that what I do matters. That belief has compelled me to venture far from… — Finbarr O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Success isn't based on 'look what I can do!' but more on an inner sense of self and believing you have something… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
“To say that Knowledge of the Self (Gnan) is exactly the same as that other knowledge is considered as speaking contrary to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image