In all honesty, we all want our fantasy selves to be the best people. We all think in a time of crisis,… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined. — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
That man is great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor self: Content to know… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...)… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm the laziest person - that's my normal self. When I'm hanging around my house, I literally look like a tramp. I… — Suki Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.” — Martha MacCullough Copy Share Image
Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there… — Al Duncan Copy Share Image
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
In the teen years, we often confuse self-image with self-esteem. Teenagers are very influenced by the image others have of them. All… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Lend.” “Lend?” Raquel asked. “Yes, as in, lend me your self.” He shimmered into Raquel again. “Why not Borrow?” I asked. “Better… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you dont hear the… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research. — James R Newman Copy Share Image
The entitlement mentality so carefully cultivated by liberal academics, politicians, clergymen, and journalists continues to corrode the self-sufficiency that once defined the… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Being self-centered for attaining something isn't wrong ,until your actions don't harm and hurt others!!! *senora* — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
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