Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face?… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life,… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
I’m a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Poets, if they're genuine, must keep repeating "I don't know." Each poem marks an effort to answer this statement, but as soon… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Sadly and criminally, many self-indulgent inactive pacifists have shunned me for being an outspoken supporter of X's 'by any means necessary' philosophy,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
“I wish my life and decisions to depend on myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up… — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
Part of the magic of the experience lay in the sheer beauty of the setting: the breathtaking sight of the high mountains,… — Joseph Jaworski Copy Share Image
Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Those who have overcome self-will and become instruments to do God's work can accomplish tasks which are seemingly impossible, but they experience… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right… — Margaret Bondfield Copy Share Image
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Find your own picture, your own self in anything that goes bad. It's awfully easy to mouth off at your staff or… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
Some people ask who they are and expect their feelings to tell them. But feelings are flickering flames that fade after every… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation,… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
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I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
There are no utopia jobs on this earth, .. There's nobody out there that can say, 'I've got the ideal job and… — Chan Gailey Copy Share Image
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“The ‘Self’ (Purush) and ‘Relative-Self’ (Prakruti), are two separate things. Self (Purush) is the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma) and ‘Relative-Self’ (prakruti) is ‘pudgal’… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
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