If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“Envisioning that, 'I am Atma (the Self) and these are my guna-dharmas (intrinsic properties that have a specific function)'; that is to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There's a Jayne Mansfield at… — Jayne Mansfield Copy Share Image
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour,… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I am a supporter of much of the Arab Spring, as a matter of indigenous self-determination. So, I see the United States'… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Yet the love we experience through other people is just a shadow of love of the inner-self. There is a sublime place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure:… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Doom comes about because of neglecting to evaluate one's self and because of just following one's whims. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt.… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better… — Nancy A. Collins Copy Share Image
What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed. — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now,… — John Cho Copy Share Image
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's entirely fair to blame [Dennis Wilson] early death and complete self-destruction on his involvement with Charles Manson,… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
Self is the perception of perception. Beyond self there's no perception of perception. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
When the mind opens by speaking denials, this true Self that philosophers have so long striven to free shows itself all glorious… — Myrtle Fillmore Copy Share Image
Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person. — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image