I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
If we have a friend who spoke to us in the same way that we sometimes speak to our self, how long… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Some of the more popular life-centers for teens include Friends, Stuff, Enemies, Self, and Work. They each have their good points, but… — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Many people come to self-help material because they feel like something is wrong with them or the way they are. The problem… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
As the great poet wrote, ‘To thine own self be true.’…What? You don’t think a Skotos can be literate? I happen to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is… — Don Altman Copy Share Image
“A person tastes the sweet pride of doer-ship by saying ‘I did this so well’. The taste of this subtle pride seems… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think having a good life prompts it... anybody who has a good life and looks around them sees the enormous disparity… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires that are in alignment with core… — David Simon Copy Share Image
It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself.… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“It is more than enough if one becomes a ‘Purush’ (Pure Soul) even for a second! One will become a Parmatma (absolute… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A decade ago young people en masse began declaring themselves as Yugoslavs. It was a form of rising Yugoslav nationalism, which was… — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who… — Jehan Sadat Copy Share Image
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take… — Marshall Ulrich Copy Share Image
If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image