Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ...… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn't something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you… — Jan Frazier Copy Share Image
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The danger of Iran is if you listen to what the Ayatollah is saying, to what the Mullahs are saying, rational self-preservation… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself,… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life. — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Unchain yourself from the guilt that you aren’t doing something right, that you’re not leaving the “right” legacy, and BE your real… — Wendy Keller Copy Share Image
We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person… — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about… — Neil Drumming Copy Share Image
I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's… — Sky Ferreira Copy Share Image
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and… — Steve Backley Copy Share Image
We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The eyes that see the soul are different from the eyes that see the self. We see soul when we are in… — Julio Olalla Copy Share Image
Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and… — Andrew Comiskey Copy Share Image
Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good… — Brian Pinkerton Copy Share Image
I think that everyone has the right to fall in love at any age. But in life you have to learn how… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
![“[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.” quote by Sean Connery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b8/sean-connery-5501_ability_james-bond-s-qualities-of-self-containme_1724816.jpg)
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