“lawyer, I used to snicker at all those people who worked at improving their inner and outer lives. ‘Get a life!’ I… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too.… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
As a mode of perception that often becomes a style of life, paranoia weaves around the vulnerable self or group an air-tight… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
When you work for others, you are at their mercy. They own your work; they own you. Your creative spirit is squashed.… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
“You are not a small and unimportant creature confined to the form of this physical body, contrary to popular belief. At the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression.… — David First Copy Share Image
We've become embarrassed about asking ourselves the straightforward, simple questions that are actually the most relevent: what is it to be human?… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that… — Liane Holliday Willey Copy Share Image
Be original, be yourself. In trying to become like someone else, we are compromising our own self being. If we are not… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“I placed no trust in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions. Thus I could stand only upon my own feet. But I was a… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in the psychic intricacies that they build up and try to run away from, and how they self-construct. A… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
As a counselor, I have spoken with many people who want to know their spiritual gifts. They come hoping for some sort… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free,… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts.… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“If you're anything like me, You bite your nails, And laugh when you're nervous. You promise people the world, because that's what… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
