One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal.… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you're playing… — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wonder whether you have noticed that man is the only animal who draws his picture, his own picture. No other animal… — Osho Copy Share Image
We look around and we constantly compare ourselves to others and analyze how well we fit in. Are we as successful as… — Sumesh Nair Copy Share Image
Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I am talking about.… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Making fun of fat people wont make you any thinner, and making fun of ugly people wont make you any prettier, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Discussions should be twofold; those about the relative (vyavahaar) should be in accordance with the relative viewpoint and those about the Real… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
When you're making art, there's a lot of self-importance attached to that, but at the end of the day, you can always… — Glen Berger Copy Share Image
I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm ego-less, but I'd say there's something uncomfortable about the presentation of one's self in the media. Any image… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
These unwritten amenities have been in part responsible for giving our people the feeling of independence and self-confidence, the feeling of creativity.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
“I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
