I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories. — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you're… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Alas! this time is never the time for self-denial, it is always the next time. Abstinence is so much more pleasant to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A woman will not understand what true dependency is until she is cradling her own infant in her arms; nor will she… — Danielle Crittenden Copy Share Image
I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“How does this ‘machinery’ function? Is it the Self that runs it? No. The Self only gives light; through which this ‘machinery’… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are. — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
You can't let people scare you. You can't go your whole life trying to please everyone else. You can't go through life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship?… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A choice isn't something someone gives you, it's something you make for yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True… — John Newton Copy Share Image
