“The Sage sees the world as an expansion of his own self So what need has he to accumulate things?” — Laotzu Copy Share Image
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. — Wilson Follett Copy Share Image
The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Copy Share Image
I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider. — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“To do anything is known as wrong belief (bhranti) and to Know is considered as 'Knowledge of the Self' (Gnan).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but… — William Osler Copy Share Image
What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
First Corinthians so clearly says that whether we eat or drink, do it all to the glory of God. It's not just… — Steve Camp Copy Share Image
Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image