Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution,… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Identification is why the reader reads and why the writer writes. We all want to identify with a character, so that we… — Jerry Cleaver Copy Share Image
Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like… — Vilayat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To me, the most important thing - aside from meeting people's physical needs, whether that's education, health care, clothing, food, a roof… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little… — Charles Henry Fowler Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Though I may be been constructed," he said, "so too were you. I in a factory; you in a womb. Neither of… — C. Robert Cargill Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in exploring with Clark Kent is when you have the power to do something that goes beyond what you… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
“self-reliant hero. As soon as he graduates college, he gives away all of his savings and wanders the wild, seeking adventure and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds,… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that insists on "moving on" (even while our loyalty to and love of the franchise and the… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
But the Bible says that the unreached will be judged on a quite different basis than those who have heard the gospel.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Ive lost who I were, once happy, once outgoing, once had self belief, and I once loved you so much.. now all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure,… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“For the broken hearts, I promise it gets better. I promise that the minutes and hours will go by faster and that… — Emily Trunko Copy Share Image
“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and… — Donald James Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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