“she slammed the door and was gone. I looked at the closed door and at the doorknob and strangely I didn't feel… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
“When my self is no longer the all-consuming preoccupation it once was, when I see it as one narrative thread among myriad… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core,… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self… — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Copy Share Image
Being self worth is greatest gift you can bestow on yourself.Self worth makes you modest & a person of character. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We must bring light to as many people as possible. Who has time to indulge in self-pity or guilt? In advanced self-giving… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One who does not join in with the unfolding karmic effects (karma oodai) is a Gnani (Self-realized), and an agnani (non-Self-realized) cannot… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open.… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough… — P. M. Forni Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You want to be free as the ego, but you need to be free FROM the ego. To be free from it… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“Self-esteem can be defined as the state that exists when you are not arbitrarily haranguing and abusing yourself but choose to fight… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how… — Paul W. K. Rothemund Copy Share Image
You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I am in a moment of self-doubt, I think - you're Violet Chachki, you can do and achieve whatever you… — Violet Chachki Copy Share Image
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have… — Bill Kovach Copy Share Image
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light. — Aaron Cohen Copy Share Image
