The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle. — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?” — Beth Johnson Copy Share Image
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
You have everything in you that Buddha has, that Christ has. You've got it all. But only when you start to acknowledge… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one's self-respect. Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Is there a Parmatma (Absolute Supreme Soul)? There definitely is, and the Parmatma is within you. Why are you searching for it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God. — Rodney Collin Copy Share Image
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and… — Melina Kanakaredes Copy Share Image
In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view.… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Sansar (worldly life) has been alive by imitating the movements of the world, and is liberated by opposing it.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil?… — Laozi Copy Share Image
If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession with personal demands, needs and disappointments? The answer is: Whatever you… — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Copy Share Image
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure:… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I will always be fashion. I try to pull it together. I think that comes from a sense of self. That's how… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
