Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What Mr. Muhammad says is, they should take their Navy and their - Merchant Fleet and ship us back where they got… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way.… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair… — Lil' Kim Copy Share Image
The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-care because… — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.)… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
I never worry about looking cool in front of a guy. I have never been a self-conscious girl. Goofing around is part… — Ashlee Simpson Copy Share Image
We have this sense that there's something bigger than us, above and beyond. If you take away the idea of God, you… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
We are aware that the order of God requires the exercise of humility, but not of servility of slaves; but a humility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned… — Alvin R. Dyer Copy Share Image
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is a world class liar. Just look at her pathetic email server statements, or her phony landing - or her… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
“Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not… — Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
