To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast… — Henry Laurens Copy Share Image
A woman will not understand what true dependency is until she is cradling her own infant in her arms; nor will she… — Danielle Crittenden Copy Share Image
“In some eras, self-control defines the paragon of a decent person: a grown-up, a person of dignity, a lady or a gentleman,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Our minds have this strange ability to make associations using ourselves as a reference point. They create our identities based on our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I had a lot of self-loathing, .. I've been self-sustained since I was 11. I've always been the one making the money,… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You are meant to judge physical reality. You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings… — Seth Copy Share Image
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
If democracy is to once again inspire a populist politics, it is crucial to develop a number of social movements in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“A doubt that in reality, 'I am not this' has arisen regarding the knowledge of 'Who am I'. From the moment a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of… — Nuhu Ribadu Copy Share Image
Our lives are full of separations that shake us up, force us to attend to our emotional selves and to learn new… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
“The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
“Who are considered as those who live a worldly life (sansaari)? Those who have attachment-abhorrence and anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays), are all sansaari. Those… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It used to be that your bloodlines dictated who you were. But the U.S. became the land of the self-made man, in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the young of today have to be protected against certain poisonous effects inherent in present-day civilization.… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“All these are [relative] tools (sadhan) and that too, they are not subtle (sthool). One will have to go into the subtle… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
![“A doubt that in reality, 'I am not this' has arisen regarding the knowledge of 'Who am I'. From the moment a doubt sets in about the knowledge that one has known up until now, 'we' [the Gnani Purush] Know that the time has come for that knowledge to break! The knowledge over which doubts arise…” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/932/dada-bhagwan-31_doubt_a-doubt-that-in-reality-i-am-not-this-ha_2717638.jpg)
![“All these are [relative] tools (sadhan) and that too, they are not subtle (sthool). One will have to go into the subtle (sookshma) [state]. What would happen if the tools themselves are believed to be the ultimate goal (sadhya)?” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/142/dada-bhagwan-31_goal_all-these-are-relative-tools-sadhan-and_2422873.jpg)
