Championships are mythical. The real champions are those who live through what they are taught in their homes and churches. The attitude… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
Freedom and happiness come from understanding - and working with - our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The soul journey inward is when we are invited to cast aside beliefs and behaviors that no longer serve us and release… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
I feel a responsibility to myself and my parents and the people whose love has gotten me this far - people who… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives.… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid… — Gabrielle Copy Share Image
Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If you Need to convince others that you’re happy, then you have Not found real Joy. If you Need to impress others… — Eric Allen Copy Share Image
Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this,… — James Finn Garner Copy Share Image
At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves,… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be.… — David Richo Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes… — Jan Frazier Copy Share Image
“Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
There are people so blind and self-absorbed in all matters that they always believe that, whatever they desire or think, they can… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image