Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Ours is a society that has falsely assumed that contribution must mean giving to some specific cause rather than simply giving our… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
“Self-care isn’t selfish. It’s necessary. The problem is, if you’re constantly saying yes to other people, putting their priorities ahead of your… — Damon Zahariades Copy Share Image
Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
I'm self-critical but also, I'm not a very modest person. I'm self-critical in the lead-up to showing anyone anything. You know how… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
“When everywhere things looks the same, it is called Gnan (True Knowledge). Whether one is made to sit near the sewers of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy… — Roger Youderian Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
“When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
If you wish others to respect you, you must show respect for them...Everyone wants to feel that he counts for something and… — Ari Kiev Copy Share Image
Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
We are dominated by everything with which our self is identified. We can dominate and control everything from which we disidentify ourselves.… — Roberto Assagioli Copy Share Image
Since I’ve known you, you’ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential. So whether you get your hair done less or your hair cut less, or… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
“It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Life is conspiring in your favor. It may not always look that way, but it is, I assure you. Everything that is… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Looking relevant, modern, timely and appropriate in terms of your age, body type and lifestyle is not only about the joy of… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness.… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
“...a marriage with Christ at the center of it pulls you right out of yourself. It teaches each partner, the husband and… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is… — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Know your self package to the core. Never lose the strength of assets, your values, what identifies and separates you, what makes… — Eveth Colley Copy Share Image
Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
