A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Before man attempts to solve the secrets of the Universe without, he should master the Universe within—the Kingdom of the Self.” — Yogi Ramacharaka Copy Share Image
I said to my self: I should forget him, his not worth keeping... but why I keep thinking of him? knowing hes… — Missyrie Copy Share Image
“We are all adaptable to changes and self worth is priceless. adapt yourself to be independent (from people, addictions, etc..) and you'll… — Abraham Ruiz Copy Share Image
It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out." — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can… — Greg Louganis Copy Share Image
Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The Self Is Not Portable The self is not portable. It cannot be packed. It comes sneaking back to any place from… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me.… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Of course the self-serving bias is something you want to get out of yourself. Thinking that what's good for you is good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth,… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Be yourself. That's it. I got about 45 [billionaires] . They are all different, all unique, and they are all self-made. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very… — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
“It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Connection between the Soul and Nischetan Chetan (discharging self) is kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed). ‘We’ (the enlightened one) eradicate these kashays!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best,… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The best form of customer service is self service. Constantly empower customers to get their own answers themselves. — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this. — Dogen Copy Share Image
In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life.… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image