Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
“As soon as the awareness 'I am Chandubhai' occurs, one will feel, 'all this worldly life is mine.' ' I am Chandhubhai,'… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. — Dean Mitchell Copy Share Image
“As long as you hold an improved self-image as a future possibility, you simultaneously hold the image of yourself as inadequate and… — J Douglas Bottorff Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I wonder whats wrong with me. Sometimes I just keep wanting to go deeper and deeper into the world of self destruction.… — Daul Kim Copy Share Image
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer… offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living."… — John Leo Copy Share Image
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The easiest way to separate yourself from the unformed blobby mass of "aspiring" writers is to a) actually write and b) actually… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The summit, which is set up to educate people about managing their money and protecting their income, leads to empowerment of self,… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness. — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity,… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money!… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
“Ambalal Muljibhai’ (Dada’s relative self) is under the control of worldly interactions, and ‘we’ (The Gnani Purush) are in the control of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own… — Nirmalananda Copy Share Image
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self. — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
