Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government;… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Finding your best self and being that person is the end result of getting some insight. To be or not to be… — Karol Jackowski Copy Share Image
Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature… Without causation, nothing happens and… — Hugh Ross Copy Share Image
The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Do you know what love is? Love is an absolute power of self-totality. Love is not what you think love is. Love… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence;… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it… — Lauren Berlant Copy Share Image
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
When you are playing great, it's wonderful. Because you and your partner just want to go out and go (rubbing hands together)… — Nick Faldo Copy Share Image
Mary Ocher gives me the chills, she frightens me with her feral soul. Her sound is of a true outsider artist, immaculately… — Karen O Copy Share Image
All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas!… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
If your own strong ego clashes with other strong egos, you not going to get anywhere. I studied psychology and learned about… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth… — Bonnie Baker Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of negligence (pramaad). Negligence related to worldly matters is referred to as laziness. When applied awareness as the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I am self-conscious beyond measure. I am intensely and constantly preoccupied with my body in the world because I know what people… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“What is considered as Purusharth (real spiritual effort to progress as the Self)? It is when there is a sense of independence… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
