Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Don't kid yourself and expect an unrealistic Hollywood fairytale. The truth is that in the real world, being in love is not… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
You're your truest self when you're young, and when somebody says something, and you're like, 'Oh, maybe I'm not normal,' you shut… — King Princess Copy Share Image
If I could go back to my younger self, I'd be like, "Not everything's permanent." — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are. — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
As long as you do not live totally in the body, you do not live totally in the Self. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?” — Beth Johnson Copy Share Image
Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm… — John Owen Copy Share Image
There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The most important thing you have to do is practice. Watch the film and be self confident, but also be self critical… — Nelson Agholor Copy Share Image
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
