A sentimentalist is one who delights to have high and devout emotions stirred whilst reading in an arm-chair, or in a prayer… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long -… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
The everyday brain could be dubbed "the baseline brain," because it operates at the minimum functioning to keep you alive and healthy.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Your false self is the accumulation of all the voice you have internalized from other people-parents and friends who want you to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness,… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
“Weakened anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul) is called religion and absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays) is called (True)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Another way to put an end to self-rejection is ask yourself whether what you're telling yourself is what a friend would say,… — Mira Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
The only thing I would tell my younger self is, 'Don't pay a lot of money for head shots.' There's always some… — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
The moment you have faith, there is the experience. The moment you have trust, there is realization, there is enlightenment. Then this… — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Copy Share Image
“Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part,… — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“In quieting our ambition on occasion to concentrate on empathy and friendship we are still investing in ourselves and we diminish the… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on… — Dave Navarro Copy Share Image
“Now I was just a transient in the valley, a one-eyed passerby too fat for his years, and life there had the… — Kenzaburō Ōe Copy Share Image
“It is human nature to compare ourselves to others. The key to self-love, motivation and growth is shifting your focus from the… — Lauren Martin Copy Share Image
While it is democratically not permissible for an individual to own any information or publishing medium, all individuals have a natural right… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“There is only the function of Seeing and Knowing within One's domain as the Self. There is nothing else at all. There… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
I really recommend it, to build a new physical relationship with yourself, and just do it on your own terms, and your… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The primary opportunity is to use a model or paradigm for describing ADD that's not disease-based and doesn't imply brain damage or… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
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