While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes… — Roger N. Walsh Copy Share Image
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Self pity is worst enemy.If we yield to it,we may never rise to occasion & will always project ourself as doomed one. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the importance of self-belief to transform your own organization, to reassure nervous clients, and to change the future of our… — Ken Kaess Copy Share Image
We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
It is not what I do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through me. God does not want… — Elizabeth Dole Copy Share Image
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard.' Or as Trump put it,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil...and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to… — Gail O'Grady Copy Share Image
The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
“The absence of misery is the first stage of moksha (liberation). The absence of the body, everything else is the second state… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Be your own fan. We need self-reinforcement, a belief in ourselves that is strong and unwavering. Be ready to pick yourself up… — David Niven Copy Share Image
The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher? The student replied: “Everything! Kobun, paused, then said: “No, you".” — Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi Copy Share Image
In my experience, most players act the way they do in their own self-interest, in getting their emotions out and basically working… — Johanna Konta Copy Share Image
All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in… — John C. Keats Copy Share Image
Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm a person who goes by what I feel like and almost no one can tell me what to do. It's always… — Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza Copy Share Image
I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody.… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience.… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image