When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
Selfish is an exploitation of others for self; selfless is an exploitation of self for others. Both are extrinsic. … Selfness. When… — Bob Samples Copy Share Image
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
In deep self-acceptance grows a compassionate understanding. As one Zen master said when I asked if he ever gets angry, 'Of course… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“What about you and me, Adina?” Duff said, sidling up to her by the railing. “I know I screwed up. But do… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
These days, the selfie and its main outlet, Instagram, generally come in for much adult loathing. But consider this: The selfie is… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
If a person was accused of being a racist when he was young - he said some racially insensitive thing or someone… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship?… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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Now is the time finally come, the time that I always go to stand up for myself, I stood for everyone ready,… — Onbekend Copy Share Image
You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People who are… — David Brin Copy Share Image
America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The Self says ‘I AM’–as in the very grand sayings of Christ, especially in the Gospel of John, in which he says… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the… — Barbara Padilla Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
Self-Love or putting yourself first is not being self-centered or a narcassist, its about making a xommitment to yourself to create what… — Yanni Copy Share Image
I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person.… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
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Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and… — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities.… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
God is the life behind your life, the sight behind your eyes, the taste behind your tongue, and the love behind your… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Individuality is a personal thing. It's based on your own personal feelings and expression of self. So, really, it's nobody's business to… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
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![“These days, the selfie and its main outlet, Instagram, generally come in for much adult loathing. But consider this: The selfie is a tiny pulse of girl pride—a shout-out to the self. … The selfie suggests something in picture form—I think I look [beautiful] [happy] [funny] [sexy]. Do you?—that a…” quote by Rachel Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/544/rachel-simmons-4183_adults_these-days-the-selfie-and-its-main-outle_1407021.jpg)
