Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone. — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I had a complicated upbringing, so I had to rely on myself and figure out what that meant and rely on my… — Jaz Sinclair Copy Share Image
Your real home isn't your patterned self. It isn't your thinking. It isn't your feeling. Your real home is the deepest within… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever… — Ed Silvoso Copy Share Image
If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is… — Calvin Miller Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“These ideas fit the experience of these Japanese women who often talked about searching for or trying to develop "self" (jibun). Cultivating… — Nancy Ross Rosenberger Copy Share Image
Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
“And when you work with love you bind your self to yourself, and to one another, and to God.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There can be no self without other, no identity of group A without a group B. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
