A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
When I lacked even the self-respect to keep myself alive, she dabbed my cuts and I fell back into being a son;… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“Hypocrisy—in other words, the practice of lying about lying—shields us from seeing ourselves as we are: a collocation of fragments that fit… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
Taking responsibility nurtures self-confidence, and self-confidence can help you to be a more interesting and attractive person. And best of all, the… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to… — James E. Ferrell Copy Share Image
I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive;… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field;… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better… — Nancy A. Collins Copy Share Image
“Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do… — Kaiden Blake Copy Share Image
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
“The great task is to claim yourself for yourself, so that you can contain your needs within the boundaries of your self… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“In a word, the Self has two qualities: it is unjust in itself since it makes itself the centre of everything; it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One’s self is the basis of everything. Every action is a manifestation of the self. A person who doesn’t know himself can… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
