The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. — Novalis Copy Share Image
I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't… — Kari Matchett Copy Share Image
As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Songs don't just suddenly arrive like a taxi you have to work on them and you have to put a lot of… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
My own emotional health issues were bullying me during the time I was drafting that poem. It was a pressure I couldn't… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the… — Robert J. White Copy Share Image
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
There can be dramas in your life and you can get over them and become someone. You don't have to wallow in… — Craig Revel Horwood Copy Share Image
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Some people think self-employment is risky, but the real risk lies in deriving your security from an external source. — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Self-judgment continues to arise - it's a strong habit - but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I don't watch anything I'm in. Not even on set. I won't go over to the monitor to watch what we've just… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior. — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious. — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
Women ... do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When we talk about Skill India Mission, we do not merely talk about filling the pockets of people. We want to instil… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
