You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." "I like you better this way."… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
What is important is to realize that whether we understand fully who we are or what will happen when we die, it's… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The penance and renunciation that one is told to do is actually under the authority of the non-Self (parsatta). So how can… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The inner music of the Soul is the real song. It's tunes are self-existing and self-supporting and need no outer aids of… — Kirpal Singh Copy Share Image
My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity. — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
If tempted by something that feels 'altruistic,' examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
Everything is interconnected. My interest is linked to everyone else's. Our survival and future are linked. Therefore the destruction of your so-called… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone.… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory. — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
I do believe that an actor, who is self aware, will never do a film that is not an extension of his… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures… — Kabir Copy Share Image
It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In the reason that the contrast between the absolute and the relative is so terrible is because we believe so fully in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
“I said just let me try one more time and she said, "THAT'S ENOUGH, ISABEL," again, and she could just say it… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can reach maximum performance by engaging in physical activities.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image