Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself. — Robert Tew Copy Share Image
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of… — Esther Earl Copy Share Image
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your… — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it. — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
“The prevalence of the application as the Self in the applied awareness as the Self is absolute Knowledge.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do… — May Sarton Copy Share Image