I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
The biggest hindrance to the missionary task is self. Self that refuses to die. Self that refuses to sacrifice. Self that refuses… — Thomas Hale Copy Share Image
So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at… — Jack D. Forbes Copy Share Image
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Not knowing one’s real Self is the greatest of maya (deceit; illusion). Once this ignorance is removed, the illusion departs.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
[The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked.… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“We don't like to admit it, but the idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book or How you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know more and… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Indriya drashti (sensorial/sense-based/physical vision) creates attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh), enlightened vision (samkit drashti) sees only the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Contemplative practices have a way of gracefully gerrymandering the borders that once rigidly defined self and other.” — Kyle Parton Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they… — Louise Hart Copy Share Image
To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings;… — Benjamin Stillingfleet Copy Share Image
Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Wherever there is attraction, there is delusionary attachment (moha). Maintain pure awakened awareness of the Soul (shuddha upyoga) where there is attraction.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
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