Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated,… — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
For me, coding is a form of self-expression. The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have. This is unacceptable… — Justin Frankel Copy Share Image
The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first… — Luis Marques Copy Share Image
even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Failure is all a matter of perspective. Think of all the people you admire. I guarantee you they all failed at one… — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
I make mistakes. I have regrets. I hate being alone. I'm always late. I hate school. I never call anyone back. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would happen,… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
“The smallest solution to purify the chit is to have a darshan (to see from near) and to become acquainted with a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Major theme of the book ["Hotels of North America"], from my point of view: what is persona, what is self, in the… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The quality of putting others before yourself, is a great way to build your self-esteem and to contribute to those who need… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
This is the value for me of writing books that children read. Children aren't interested in your appalling self-consciousness. They want to… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that… — Plato Copy Share Image
“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
For all you people that complain about others that live within your radius, do you look at yourself? Self evaluation is quite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats… — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
Honor your seeing...digest your seeing...otherw ise it becomes just another thing you file away in the mind's department of philosophy...yo u're here… — Mooji Copy Share Image
I self-deprecate. When I first got here two years ago, I didn't realise that in America you can't go into the room… — Sophie Winkleman Copy Share Image
Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“Neither the world nor one’s actions cause obstructions; kashays (inner anger, pride, deceit, greed) cause obstruction!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
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