It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart. — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep...slow...breathing. Of… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Vyavahaar (the relative; worldly interactions) is something that needs to be settled (nikaali), whereas Nischay (the firm resolve to remain as the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their… — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share Image
The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem… — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our… — Chase Utley Copy Share Image
Self-reflection is the gateway to freedom. It also brings greater appreciation and enjoyment. We begin to enjoy spending time with our own… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“Self-Love is accepting you for what you are, Accepting your flaws and just being confident in your own skin. Acceptance is the… — Aishwarya Sharma Copy Share Image
In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“No matter if you tried to do what was best. No matter if your innermost self whispers, ‘I am not as you… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate… — Jay Carr Copy Share Image
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“Talks about the Self (Atma) and absolute Self (Parmatma) have no strain of worldly interactions in them. The Lord (Mahavira) has referred… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream,… — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it. — Lucy Boynton Copy Share Image
Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day? — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
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