the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There are a lot of self important people who make you believe they're artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I've… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Don’t force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest; if you… — Pierre Ceresole Copy Share Image
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the… — T. Coleman Andrews Copy Share Image
“When one has not known anything but becomes infected with the ‘disease of knowing’; he is a grave diseased person. What is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
“In no case should we abandon responsibility for our own choice-making or give someone else's conception of what we are more weight… — Marsha Sinetar Copy Share Image
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
“Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The inherent nature of the Self (atma) is such that as the belief changes, one becomes like that. In that, the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self… And to venture in the highest is precisely to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink.… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“Absence of anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays – the ones that gives pain to soul) is Ultimate Liberation (Moksha).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The most painful thing in life is losing your self in the process of valuing someone too much and forgetting that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
“How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious. — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
When you can't seem to find happiness or peace in either direction you turn, maybe its time for self evaluation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There's such a self-conscious balance that goes into television. Also, these are not people that think things through. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image