Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take… — Herman Van Rompuy Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he… — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside… — David Foster Copy Share Image
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts. — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
Is religion subjective? Nay, its soul is in objectivity, in an Other whose Life is our true life, whose Love is our… — Thomas Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
At the gym, men are just as self conscious and check themselves out in the mirror just as much as women do.… — Chuck Hughes Copy Share Image
Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
