I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be your self in the world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Nikkie Mae Copy Share Image
“Becoming an Earth Citizen means that you are breaking out of a self-imposed idea of who you are and embracing the broader… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“Self is what makes mind think, but never needs the mind. Self is what makes bodies live, but needs no existence for… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
“Where there is no solution, there One should keep Seeing-Knowing. If one has not attained Atmagnan (Knowledge of the Self), even then… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“What is the inherent nature of the relative self (pratisthit atma) like? It mimics what it sees, it does not have to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Well is it me or can it be I'm a little too friendly. So to speak hypothetically say I supply creativity. To… — Lisa Left Eye Copy Share Image
[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.” — Deborah Day Copy Share Image
How to use and leverage the presence and power of certain places for accessing the authentic dimension of self in individuals and… — Otto Scharmer Copy Share Image
“And then I feel the sun itself as it blazes over the hills, like a million flowers on fire -- clearly I'm… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“In a loud world, we begin to lose our sense of self, not because it's missing, but because we can no longer… — Egbearor Favour Copy Share Image
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You know how great villains just believe in what they're doing? In their minds they're not villains, they're not doing anything wrong;… — Jessica Biel Copy Share Image
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Freedom from ignorance of the Self is the intent moksha (bhaav-moksha) and then comes [into effect] the actual moksha (drayva-moksha).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve. — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour,… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
There’s only one basic principle of self-defense- you must apply the most effective weapon, as soon as possible, to the most vulnerable… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“Not everyone is always going to like you. What impresses one person may turn another away. To thine own self be true.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I actually finally let the Light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image