It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we…

When you live your life in alignment with a purpose that is centered on selflessly adding value for others, opportunities become abundant and your…

— Hal Elrod

“In a review of more than two hundred studies, researchers concluded that the more self-focused we are, the more anxious—and also the more depressed…

— Amy Cuddy

Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more…

— Kevin Malarkey

When i was younger I was much more self focussed. I was worried about my self-image. I thought I was too fat. I was…

— Judith Durham

People only love you as long as they're getting something of you, but the minute you say something they don't want to hear or…

— Chris Colfer

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

— Kelley Armstrong

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age…

— Wim Wenders

If Under fell, if Over leaped, If death was life and Death life reaped, Something rises from the gloom, To make the Underland a…

— Suzanne Collins

Holy is the dish and drain, the soap and sink, and the cup and plate and the warm wool socks, and the cold white…

— Carrie Newcomer

Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they…

— Orson Scott Card

I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just…

— Chinua Achebe

Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.

— Derek Sivers

It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

People project a grey energy that is very destructive to weaken you, to drain you - just as the snake uses position to capture…

— Frederick Lenz

When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,…

— Maile Meloy