Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance… — Raimon Panikkar Copy Share Image
…goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Buddha is someone with a very advanced self-concept. His self-esteem is perfect; he has gone beyond doubt; he knows, and he is… — Joy Manne Copy Share Image
“To think about essence (that which is helpful) and non-essence (that which is not helpful) is called wisdom (good judgement). If one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive… — Charlotte Mendelson Copy Share Image
Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species.… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Yet each of us also carries another portrait with us, a picture far more important than any in our wallet. Psychologists have… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently,… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had… — Bill Crow Copy Share Image
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
My mum told me when I was young life doesn't come with instructions and I sat there all night wondering who teaches… — Daniel Starns Copy Share Image
The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The table is the number one place we pass on family stories and it's the knowledge of where your family came from… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on,… — Huldrych Zwingli Copy Share Image
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character.… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not;… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it.… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
“What is the difference between darshan (vision) and gnan (knowledge)? Vishesh bhaav (special or additional intent) of darshan (vision) is gnan (knowledge).… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
