... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The worst form of suffering is not knowing what you've done, but not knowing who you are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was… — Alice Pung Copy Share Image
The key to self-confidence is knowing that you would choose you... and why. In this way the chosen becomes the chooser, and… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
I think a problem for most people in a fiduciary capacity is to eliminate self and greed and all those things so… — Shep Gordon Copy Share Image
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own… — Nirmalananda Copy Share Image
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
Whether we give away too much or too little of ourselves, our vitality dwindles. — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
When you're young and you're comin' up, and you dream of gettin' this record deal, and then you actually get it, and,… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Sadly and criminally, many self-indulgent inactive pacifists have shunned me for being an outspoken supporter of X's 'by any means necessary' philosophy,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how… — Paul W. K. Rothemund Copy Share Image
If self-driving cars are going to work - they're being tested now, as you know - the computers that drive them have… — Peter Sagal Copy Share Image
As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be. — T.I Copy Share Image
