By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
In an effort to create safety and self-reliance in your life and relationships, you may have built walls around your heart and… — David Deida Copy Share Image
Yes, you can get a man to do just about anything, and you know it. So, what are you going to attract… — David Deida Copy Share Image
Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise. Family members may learn to be obedient, honest, industrious, self-reliant,… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?” It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I went to extreme measures to achieve my goals, from strapping heavy sandbags on my ankles, hopping on one leg, up and… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.' Is it… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that people shouldn't go out to football games and drink beer and have a good time, I do it… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as… — Sophia Lyon Fahs Copy Share Image
Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I believe that the gospel and the American Dream have fundamentally different starting points. The American Dream begins with self, exalts self,… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I just think that whole culture of hatred, and also feeling like it's your right to judge people when you don't know… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Once the idea of a supernaturalistic creation is fully overcome, the idea returns that the universe must be self-organizing and therefore composed… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
From the beginning, there has been a tension in the reception of the Kantian idea of autonomy. If you emphasize the 'nomos'… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self, not in some strained or contrived way, but by… — Mooji Copy Share Image
So, the path of the co-creator is to be awakened spiritually within, which then turns into your own deeper life purpose, which… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I’m not really afraid to be my awkward self, and I know there’s lots and lots of other people just like me… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
God’s love sets us free from the need to seek approval. Knowing that we are loved by God, accepted by God, approved… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities.… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
