D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race. — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
“Bhavnindra (asleep to the Self) means sleeping in one’s true self’s nature. And in that other sleep (sleeping at night), one is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?” — Ruthy Alon Copy Share Image
Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that… — Mika Copy Share Image
Your life is important. Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again… — Robin Winks Copy Share Image
There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then. — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply,… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source. — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
“To constantly see one’s own (self) as ‘pure’, and to see other’s (self) as ‘pure’, is shuddha upayog (Pure applied awareness as… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
A strong human spirit with control over appetites of the flesh is master over emotions and passions and not a slave to… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
What moves you, you move. That brings your sexuality into your being, through your heart, and that movement brings your being, through… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing.… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model,… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself. — Domenico Cieri Copy Share Image
In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. — Mike Oldfield Copy Share Image
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
