“O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other:… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“What is the definition of Gnan [true knowledge]? It is that which must be present without fail when needed. Who should be… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the death of my mother has made me the way I am today. I am a survivor, mentally… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
As long as we place millions of Indians at the canter of our thought process, as long as we think of their… — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team,… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Love is the ability to live your life with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome, the ability within yourself to… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my… — John Piper Copy Share Image
That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
The invasion of the Church by the world is a menace to the extension of Christ's Kingdom. In all ages conformity to… — John Mott Copy Share Image
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The state mankind are in today, is the direct inheritance of the fruits from the 'Tree of Knowledge' of Good and Evil;… — Geraldine Vermaak Copy Share Image
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I was my own Peeping Tom. Because of the absence of people I could do anything, and if it wasn't good I… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear.… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone,… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism.… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is… — Pierre Jean George Cabanis Copy Share Image
Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I don't need anybody's money, it's nice.I'm totally self-funding my campaign, and the people like that, because you know, when they come… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image