My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
And I want to say that my grandmother was one of the biggest inspirations in my life. She taught me how to… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all. — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an… — David Meerman Scott Copy Share Image
I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
“To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself;… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny,… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
You've got to believe in your damn self and do the damn thing, so I'm a big believer in self-belief, man, and… — Max Holloway Copy Share Image
I'm someone who believes that hearts don't beat voluntarily, they need a reason. If you lack self love or love for others… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
My surroundings have always been conducive to achieving what you want and believing in self 100 per cent; not being afraid to… — Poppy King Copy Share Image
What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language.… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
All errors can be traced back to you the person, every action consists of possibilities of error and mistakes. our duty is… — Edward Shaylitsa Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to praise myself. Rather, I want to praise the thing that saves me from myself. Hence there is God.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's thrilling and it's an honor to be part of something bigger than your own self. — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of. — Seth Copy Share Image
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image