I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood,… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when… — Lynn Jones Copy Share Image
I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action,… — Seth Copy Share Image
The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The literal meaning of "yoga" is "union," "integration," "reconnection." But in the context of practice, yoga is a way of gaining access… — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person,… — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
To be in a beast of a musical (I mean it's huge!) gave me a sense of I don't want to say… — Kendra Kassebaum Copy Share Image
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes,… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow. — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
In my poems though, as you say, the comic arrived fairly late. This doubtless has something to do with growing older. A… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
