Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Learn that happiness comes through self-control and not being angry or jealous. The only one that you really torment is yourself. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses]… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor.… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let… — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
The transsexually constructed lesbian-feminist feeds off woman’s true energy source, i.e. her woman-identified self. It is he who recognises that if female… — Janice Raymond Copy Share Image
And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'd love to teach a self-defense class for ladies, specifically about running away from psychos in masks chasing them with chainsaws. — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious. — Mary Stuart Masterson Copy Share Image
“If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it. I’m a mystic, but only in my body, My soul is… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now. — Venkatesananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I am very much an only child, meaning I am self-reliant, egocentric, sociable. I had my mother, father, and an uncle who… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
It is not the self -critical who reveals his humility ( for does not everyone have some how to put up with… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Until we heal the root cause of our suffering, and awaken to our true nature, our inherent confusion will continue to manifest… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
“Neither you, nor me, are "just vampires." Being vampires is just a part of what we are. There is no need to… — Ohmi Tomu Copy Share Image
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