The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It’s our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked like a misfit because it was… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Isn’t it time you gave yourself a healthy dose of self-love? The fact is, you deserve it. You are a magnificent, radiant… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the… — Cheri Huber Copy Share Image
General anxiety is the bridge between the manic joys of creation, exploration, new revelations, professional acceptance and reward, and the depression of… — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Many people meditate in order that a third eye may open. For that they feel they should close their two physical eyes.… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue;… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ...… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
“The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This gives the agents of the gods a powerful area of support. All they need to do is to remind their followers… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
“Whose fault is it? The one who is suffering. Which fault? The belief that ‘I am Chandulal’, verily is your mistake. It… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life,… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image