Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions,… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
The self...can split off from itself without being less. You are not a mini self, an adjunct to some super-being, never to… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Coming from being a dancer, it was a great way for me to transition into being an actress. I get to really… — Summer Glau Copy Share Image
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it’s painful, and it certainly doesn’t feel like pride. But I believe that… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence. — Al MacInnis Copy Share Image
Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence,… — Terry Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, one who is… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Found myself screaming in a hotel room. I didn't want to self-destruct. — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The world is a scary place. Even my mother has suggested I take a self defense class. — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
To having no self esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
Anger is remembered pain, fear is anticipated pain, guilt is self directed pain, depression is depletion of energy. Cure-return to love& joy — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers.… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
