Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The knowledge of this world is not considered knowledge, it is worldly knowledge. Scriptural knowledge is considered as instrumental knowledge. Knowledge of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
How to get rid of the mind? Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself. So… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
...self-important western journalists who'd given up their sacred trust to become cheerleaders for trendy causes, the way communist journalists had once been… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
I think there is way to project self nfcoidence without being rude or arrogant. Here are some thoughts:- Never be the one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The process of discovering who you are is like being on a path. There's one path on the east side and one… — Isaiah Harden Copy Share Image
So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah!… — James Corden Copy Share Image
We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you're quiet and you're just not the most gregarious person, that you're like..… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal… — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The weirdest time is when I'm having to explain myself all day to journalists, and then I don't perform, so there's no… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“At some point, it's time to stop fighting with death, my thighs and the way things are. And to realize that emotional… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“My writing became the axis upon which all my identity and happiness hinged. It was now outward-looking, a self-conscious performance. I was… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There was a time when I was unable to get out of bed because my body, its muscles eating themselves away, refused… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
“We don't know ourselves, we knowledgeable people—we are personally ignorant about ourselves. And there's good reason for that. We've never tried to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
“I'm persnickety," I confessed. "Not, incidentally, to the point of being snarly. But still. Delightful and persnickety are not a common blend."… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I am courageous and funny I wonder how I can help others I listen to the birds sing I take time to… — Marylou Devery Copy Share Image
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I realized that we're now at a point of self-reference with the Internet culture that there's almost no there left, you know?… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image