The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, because they're all… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and… — Margaret H. Marshall Copy Share Image
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I sometimes call this our "spacesuit self" because we come into an environment that is difficult and challenging, where we're told to… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
There were times, earlier in my career, where I didn't have the wherewithal to self-edit, and I probably said things and pushed… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Even the implication that The Lord of the Rings is a mythic story about Western, white supremacy - regardless of the political… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. And there… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In all the people I meet - though some may be governed by the self-centered nature and may not know their potential… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
More than ever, we express ourselves with what we buy and how we use what we buy. Extensions of our personality, totems… — Seth Copy Share Image
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
“The ego isn't a bad thing. If we didn't develop a strong ego, a strong sense of self, we wouldn't be able… — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion.… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“I find it hard to talk about myself. I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I? paradox. Sure, no one… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Good’ and ‘bad’ (right and wrong) are (thoughts) based on the intellect [buddhi]. Stay away from it and keep anasakatayog [state devoid… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The anti-pleasure movement in self-discovery is very strong. I have big news for them, if they ever get to enlightenment, which is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“There is a phase of melancholy—a phase that has sloughed all urgency—that seems to me always a revelation of that ancient, familiar… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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![“Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to others. I have been off Twitter lately because I had this sudden sort of feeling of, this man is the president of this club and it's not a club that I want to be in…” quote by Ben H. Winters](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/8ea/ben-h-winters-14454_activist_here-in-america-we-have-a-man-donald-tru_946555.jpg)
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