I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Q: Most people on a spiritual path believe that the ego impedes spiritual growth and that we’re supposed to shed the ego.… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You can only be your best self. When I initially got on the air, I would look around me and watch people… — Abby Huntsman Copy Share Image
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“To become nobody but your true self and to struggle against the tide of sameness and the false security of simply fitting… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
“In fact, those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be,… — PHILLIP ROTH Copy Share Image
Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
“I'd just killed some of the best riders in the world - and I was clean. I'd taken nothing - no EPO,… — David Millar Copy Share Image
“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do… — Henry Thomas Hamblin Copy Share Image
“How does the Gnani’s (enlightened one’s) antahkaran (the inner component of the mind, intellect, chit and the ego), work?’ If the ‘Self’… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Every child is born not only with a stomach that has to be catered to, it is also endowed with two hands… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
So long as men denounce each other as mentally sick (homosexual, addicted, insane, and so forth) so that the madman can always… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
When we express our needs indirectly through the use of evaluations, interpretations, and images, others are likely to hear criticism. When people… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes… — David Wolpe Copy Share Image
All [Sadie’s] previous attempts [of making a shabti (an Egyptian avatar of one’s self)] had exploded or gone haywire, terrorizing Khufu and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs,… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“When parparinati (the belief that 'I am doing' in what are the results of the non-Self) ceases and one happens to remain… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us,… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“As a child, a teen, a young adult, I developed a firm belief in my solitude, the not-novel concept that we are… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom?… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“We are so fascinated by the complexity and beauty of the various forms in nature, that we have been led away from… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Programs that encourage mentorship, workshops that teach women how to self advocate, and even employee resource groups that are focused on women… — Belinda Johnson Copy Share Image
...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
![“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about--was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we…” quote by Adam Gopnik](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b2d/adam-gopnik-6789_amplification_t-he-relentless-note-of-incipient-hyster_659415.jpg)
![“All [Sadie’s] previous attempts [of making a shabti (an Egyptian avatar of one’s self)] had exploded or gone haywire, terrorizing Khufu and the initiates. Last week she’d created a magical Thermos with googly eyes that levitated around the room, yelling, “Exterminate! Exterminate!” until it…” quote by Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cf1/rick-riordan-27_egyptian_all-sadie-s-previous-attempts-of-making_2736664.jpg)
![“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. [] If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion…” quote by Max Stirner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/00e/max-stirner-6556_barriers_whoever-will-be-free-must-make-himself-f_699179.jpg)
