Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush… — Kat Cole Copy Share Image
Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
What you see is only half of what I am. I have a hundred different faces, a million different personalities. Only a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate,… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Samkit (awareness of ‘I am pure Soul’) is a vision. The moment one’s vision turns (from ‘I am Chandubhai’ to ‘I am… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I hold it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. — John Keats Copy Share Image
The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something… — John Caples Copy Share Image
There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a… — Ivan Chermayeff Copy Share Image
The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according… — Margo Jefferson Copy Share Image
I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance,… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
Around when I turned 17 and I bought my own studio equipment and started recording myself, I kinda found my own voice.… — Kyle Copy Share Image
A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling,… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
