Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations. — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down—for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite.” — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem! — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
Alice was scrutinizing my boring jeans-and-a-T-shirt outfit in a way that made me self-conscious. Probably plotting another makeover. I sighed. My indifferent… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“The woman I was yesterday, introduced me to the woman I am today; which makes me very excited about meeting the woman… — Poetic Evolution Copy Share Image
To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self). — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fear tell you that you're just existing on your own; faith reminds you that you're living and have a Father who cares. — Author Michael Mbuko Copy Share Image
For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“You do not have an existence independent of your environment, but rather you are your environment, and your environment is you.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
I was focused before - obsessed, really - with the appearance of perfection. But what did that ever bring me but pain?… — Cheryl Rainfield Copy Share Image
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
If we parents accept that problems are an essential part of life's challenges, rather than reacting to every problem as if something… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Fear is giving away your energy and power to a thought or belief you hold to be true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases. — Andrew Saul Copy Share Image
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is the main motivation of mankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction--to experience… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
Through intense deep meditation you reach a state that is beyond thought, beyond change, beyond imagination, beyond differences and duality. Once you… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
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