A happy life, a life making full use of all our potential is and must be a balanced life. The obstacles to… — Louis Tice Copy Share Image
Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible… — John H. Vandenberg Copy Share Image
Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
“Television is all right, I've nothing against it, but I don't like how it turns you away from the rest of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self… — Jessica Ortner Copy Share Image
What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I was focused before - obsessed, really - with the appearance of perfection. But what did that ever bring me but pain?… — Cheryl Rainfield Copy Share Image
As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I actually take karate and tae-kwon-do. And so I love sparring and grappling and all that physical stuff. I studied a hybrid… — Daniella Alonso Copy Share Image
To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Only when the mind is tranquil-through self-knowledge and not through imposed self-discipline-only then, in that tranquillity, in that silence, can reality come… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself. — Ji Lee Copy Share Image
Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves. — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
“Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast… — William Penn Copy Share Image
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of… — Sydney Thompson Dobell Copy Share Image
Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
If you told my 13-year-old self that one day I'd be talking about how Tom Cruise and I had good chemistry, she'd… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“When there is God above you, there is no ultimate liberation (moksha) there. Where there is moksha, there is no God above… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith,… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful. — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If you're in a band or think of yourself as a slightly creative person, you can get quite self-indulgent, so sometimes it's… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
