I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
In love, there is a total acceptance of self, and a willingness to give of self without an expectation of receiving anything… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to… — Taylor Hawkins Copy Share Image
Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language.… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Being thankful doesn't necessarily mean only the mouth, its being happy with what you got, being happy with the life you are… — Edward Shaylitsa Copy Share Image
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Many of us have unconsciously erected barriers to protect ourselves from failing or succeeding. We may think we're protecting ourselves by denying… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“I learned that if you love a boy you are o longer free. The boy may become more important than your own… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The Soul is indeed such that the mahavrats (five great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing, and celibacy as expounded by Lord… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he… — Jeremy Silman Copy Share Image
“But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where do we end, and what is the self? You cut off your arm, you're still yourself. You cut off two of… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
For many people, the mortgages they took out before 2008 are so high that they would be better off walking away from… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
In terms of talking about what our politics has become, it now seems as if Barack Obama is starting to stand outside… — Gloria Borger Copy Share Image
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect.… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
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