Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I always want to remain positive. In our long history, Iran has been invaded by so many other countries and despite it… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
“She was to my ego what Rasputin was to morality, whittling away at my self-image with menaces and put downs viewed as… — Tyne O'Connell Copy Share Image
“But the self is precisely the integrator; it is the synthetic unity, as Kant said. It is the artist of life. It… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Identity means "how do I get known? How do I expressmyself?" and that's generally what I'm helping somebody do. It may be… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
“One of the fundamental axioms of masculine self-regard is that the tools and appurtenances of a man's life must be containable within… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Right now, women's worth is being quantified by how they look and their Instagrams and likes. That's all so self-created, so why… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
“What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through… — Athene's Theory of Everything Copy Share Image
I identify as African American. I identify as Black. Black is something I share with other descendants of Africa, African-American is something… — Jamilah Lemieux Copy Share Image
Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“Truly, nothing in the world has occupied my thoughts as much as the Self, this riddle, that I live, that I am… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Respect for individual human personality has with us reached its lowest point," observed one intellectual in 1921, "and it is delightfully ironical… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
First of all, "no self" doesn't mean there is no self, haha. So the "no problem" is jumped at a little too… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“With self-denial and economy now, and steady exertion by-and-by, an object in life need not fail you. Venture not to complain that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If the anti-Christian agenda will say, 'Here's your identity, you're an evolved amoeba who ought to just go do whatever you want… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Self-development is the only thing that keeps a person from burning out. We all have many needs - the need for certainty,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“It had not occurred to him how he must appear to an outsider, to the world. For a moment he saw himself… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“But no-one came here to live an ordinary life. Despite what our somnambulistic, mythless society society tells us — a place stuffed… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can base your identity on a thousand things — the degrees you’ve earned, the positions you hold, the salary you make,… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“I am grown, with children of my own. But inside I am still a daughter. A daughter is a woman who remains… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Everyone makes a difference. Someone who does something for others makes a big difference. A person who has no self-interest to do… — Anuj Copy Share Image
“My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another. With him I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Immaturity is the inability to act in your own long-term best interest or consistent with your deepest values. As aforementioned, self-awareness is… — Chip Espinoza Copy Share Image
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Running is the classical road to self-consciousn ess, self-awareness and self-reliance. Independence is the outstanding characteristic of a runner. He learns the… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
When individuals are established in universal consciousness, they live the scientific reality of the unity of life spontaneously in accord with all… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
“Complaining and reactivity are favorite mind patterns through which the ego strengthens itself. For many people, a large part of their mentalemotional… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“That which does not affect or obstruct anyone is called the Self. It does not obstruct even ignorance! Ignorance obstructs It, It… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Why would one's identity be a matter of feelings? I think that that's a misuse of terms, philosophically. Identity is mind independent.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“Individualism • The first of these practical philosophies is individualism. When most people today are faced with a decision, the question that… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
It was measured that the splinters of the Armenian nation that had managed to miraculously escape the Genocide would not be able… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
