One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
“Listen, child," Maame said. "Every story you believe, that you incorporate within the self, decides who you are. And the greatest weapon… — Suyi Davies Okungbowa Copy Share Image
Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the… — David Deida Copy Share Image
Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first. — William Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool. — Charles Boyer Copy Share Image
It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak… — Joyce Grenfell Copy Share Image
It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
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