Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
When the link between the use of unsafe, mercury-laden vaccine and autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies and diabetes becomes undeniable, mainstream medicine will… — Bernard Rimland Copy Share Image
Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit. — Paul Carus Copy Share Image
Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have found, in my life experience with President Trump, when he's out there himself and he's being his fresh, authentic self,… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
Non-Islamic, non-foreign-motivated terrorist actions have killed at least as many Americans on American soil as those who were promoted by jihadists. But… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The disowned parts of ourselves are what get in the way of us having the relationships we long for, the careers we… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't the death of a person you love bring you into lurid ruin? You don't know how to love the one… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous… — Jean Ferris Copy Share Image
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel. — Jay Samit Copy Share Image
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Sri Krishna said: Arjuna, when one thoroughly casts off all cravings of the mind, and is satisfied in the Self through the… — Gita Press Copy Share Image
Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it… — Sister Nivedita Copy Share Image
Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self. — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are… — Rorion Gracie Copy Share Image
I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I think we can't be naive in dealing with the Russians or dealing with the Syrians. But at the same time, I… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men. — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop,… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
