What is the holding of breath? It is a flight from the Self, it is a temporary escape from the torment of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
One's self is always shifting in relationship to beauty and you always have to be able to incorporate yourself or your new… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Present yourself always As who you would be, And that is the person The world will see. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“If we don’t look within nature, we cannot look within ourselves. If we cannot admire the clear and sweet world, we cannot… — Kayla Severson Copy Share Image
Virtual Self' combines a lot of unlike elements - trance, jungle, slowed-down breakbeats. — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food,… — Martha Van Rensselaer Copy Share Image
Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and… — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his… — Roger Dawson Copy Share Image
There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that.… — Sheryl Swoopes Copy Share Image
“The path of moksha (ultimate liberation) has to be understood. This study of the self, doing penance, doing chanting is being done… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self. — Lucy Boynton Copy Share Image
To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124” — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
A woman with confidence is hypnotic. A smile is mesmerizing. Presence, openness, a sense of humor—these are all things that make a… — Jessica Ortner Copy Share Image
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don't mean self-consciousn ess where you're limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“If sankalp-vikalp (all the relative 'I-ness' and ‘my-ness’ that stems from the belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’) happen, then it can be… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image