If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“The world is a ‘relative truth’ and the Soul is the ‘real truth.’ The world is not false (mithya) at all; it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good… — Edwin J Delattre Copy Share Image
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth… — Jay Lake Copy Share Image
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests,… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we… — John Milbank Copy Share Image
Сertainly there are people for whom anti-depression medication has allowed them to use difficulty to wake up, and I don't deny that… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
It's easy to see and notice what we like in other people. Sometimes, it's not as easy to see the attributes and… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A virtue of the free enterprise system is that it offers every individual the greatest opportunity for self expression. — Lawrence Fertig Copy Share Image
“A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what’s right, and earning your own self-respect.” — David Schnarch Copy Share Image
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our… — Dorothy Norman Copy Share Image
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya Hai Ke Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya Hai What should… — Muhammad Iqbal, Sir Copy Share Image
If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Your biggest enemy is your self and you are the only one who is capable of making peace with your self, not… — Missyrie Copy Share Image
I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“An almost infallible means of saving yourself from the desire of self-destruction is always to have something to do.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Quit hating and trying to be like the next man. Get on your own grind and be better than the next man,… — Surgeo Bell Copy Share Image
"Believe in yourself" - that makes sense. You should believe in yourself - you should believe that you're capable of great things… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful. — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty.… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
