Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
We're all born with an ego – it's a natural part of who we are here. We're only completely without it in… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem,… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
A focus on people's health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction. — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self. — Edouard Vuillard Copy Share Image
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman’s true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female… — Janice Raymond Copy Share Image
Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
