Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves. — Jonathan Messinger Copy Share Image
I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self. — Karen Salmansohn Copy Share Image
The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of… — Oseola McCarty Copy Share Image
“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen… — Alexander Gardner Copy Share Image
Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent… — William James Copy Share Image
The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Mary lived in the divine Eucharist, the center of her love. All her thoughts, words, and actions sprang from It like the… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“ Why do we put our self esteem in the hands of complete strangers? ” — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
Humans have a soul which is their real higher self; a Divine, Mighty, Being. — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself — Simon Hughes Copy Share Image
Being teased and losing my self value eventually ended up inspiring me to be a better version of myself. — Khoudia Diop Copy Share Image
Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule. — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint. — William E. Woodward Copy Share Image
“When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover’s eyes.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment. — Muhammad Copy Share Image