I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy,… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned - it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned - and the only way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What does 'community service' mean? It destroys 'my' (sense of attachment for specific things, especially oneself) for the most part. If 'my'… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans. — Israel Shahak Copy Share Image
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles. — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“If a person wants to walk on the path of the Vitrag (Enlightened Ones), he should turn the upayog (applied awareness) from… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self, — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Thinking too much of what others think of you ultimately changes what you think of yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Pudgal’s [Complex of intake and output; body complex] nature is input (puran) and output (galan). If preference is given to smooth things,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“What may appear to be the wrong way by other people's standards may indeed be the perfectly inspired path by which you… — Linda Cull Copy Share Image
“Poisonous people will try to destroy you when they recognize your power; this is because they fear what you might become.” — Peprah Boasiako Copy Share Image
A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Self is that which dies... Spirit is that which lives... forever.” — Joan Walsh Anglund Copy Share Image
Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image