We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive! — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Her words washed over him reversing his self-consciousness over the years.” — Twyla Turner Copy Share Image
“When people find themselves in these conditions they lose their self-consciousness and sense of time. They report that the task itself becomes… — James P. Womack Copy Share Image
“We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.” — Wilhelm Von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance. — Noel Carroll Copy Share Image
We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
With self consciousness guilty may turn into regret & self pity. When consciousness bites over guilt,extend acceptance & forgiveness. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
However, when we shift our awareness or "frequency" from self-consciousness - where fear, impossibility or feelings of separation reside - to cosmic… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Truthfully, you're not your audience, so all that self-consciousness and all that - it gets in the way of you actually just… — Zelda Williams Copy Share Image
“One always needs to be reminded; one is by no means always in possession of one’s whole self. Our consciousness is feeble;… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Unhappily, things get clearer as we go along. I perceive that I have no body. What's less, I've been speaking of myself… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Many people become self-conscious when they communicate. Whether it's writing or speaking, they are consumed by anxiety. Self-consciousness is an impediment to… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
“The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived… — Lorenz Oken Copy Share Image
“Daisuke was the sort of man who, once he was disturbed by something, no matter what, could not let go of it… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“What one should add here is that self-consciousness is itself unconscious: we are not aware of the point of our self-consciousness. If… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Moreover, probably owing to excessive self-consciousness, perhaps as the result of the generally unfortunate cast of my personality, there existed between my… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“This is it, I think, this is it, right now, the present, this empty gas station, here, this western wind, this tang… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, there would be certainly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“In a deserted stretch of the Karadj highway Munis had come face-to-face with unbridled lust, although she knew what lust was before… — Shahrnush Parsipur Copy Share Image
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