It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
How attractive you are is entirely based on you feel about yourself, and if I could tell my 20-year-old self that -… — Davina McCall Copy Share Image
Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth. — Kabir Copy Share Image
This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.' — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
For many, life has become more about what they can't do rather than what they can do. The truth, however, is that… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Making fun of fat people wont make you any thinner, and making fun of ugly people wont make you any prettier, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything… — Common Copy Share Image
Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism… — Frank Prochaska Copy Share Image
I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
