You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as… — Henry Thomas Hamblin Copy Share Image
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power. — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You create your life through the inner power of your being, whose source is within you and yet beyond the selves that… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
“What will you do with your self? Many men and women are still in darkness, trying to figure out the meaning and… — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart. — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
“Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love… — William James Copy Share Image
In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost. — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
Work not of enthusiasm but of love, conscious of duty-which means self-denial. — Salvador Bernal Copy Share Image
With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step,… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be. — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. — Bolesław Prus Copy Share Image
The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image