Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I came out specifically so that I could rent 'Queer As Folk' at Hollywood Video and buy 'Judy at Carnegie Hall.' Because… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
What is it to 'walk in the Spirit'? It is not self-occupation, nor even occupation with the Spirit. Walking according to the… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
“Self care isn’t always pretty , it’s not always candles and a bathtub full of roses , sometimes it’s forcing yourself to… — Kriti Goyal Copy Share Image
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Are you a slave to your self-centered nature or does your divine nature guide your life? Do you kow that every moment… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I never realized how much I've become dependent on human approval until God took it away. I didn't even realize that I… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“By prevailing in ignorance [of the Self], worldly life gets charged. By prevailing in the Knowledge of the Self, worldly life discharges!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find… — Ruthie Ann Miles Copy Share Image
There are very few self-made millionaires, if any, who have not taken risks which would make the rest of us unable to… — Dominic Lawson Copy Share Image
Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in… — Mary Meeker Copy Share Image
I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am one Dana when I am talking to my daughter, another when I am talking to the IRS, and another still… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
The notion that economic life is a distinct realm, governed by immutable laws of narrow self-interest, is giving way to a much… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./ Move gratefully, from these old skins. /And this time, if you toughen,/ decide /… — Em Claire Copy Share Image
For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have found, in my life experience with President Trump, when he's out there himself and he's being his fresh, authentic self,… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Self-expression, to me, is something that you worked on, that you have mastered a skill to say something in the most artful… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image