Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process. — Kitty Ferguson Copy Share Image
Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about… — Greg LeMond Copy Share Image
When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the… — Julie Carmen Copy Share Image
The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
“The path of moksha (ultimate liberation) has to be understood. This study of the self, doing penance, doing chanting is being done… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition,… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. — George Packer Copy Share Image
I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is… — Adam Ferrara Copy Share Image
I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint… — Thomas G. Bandy Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance. — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam… — Jonathan Yardley Copy Share Image
And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it? You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.” — Napz Cherub Pellazo Copy Share Image
Gu means darkness or ignorance. Ru denotes the remover of that darkness. Therefore one who removes darkness of our ignorance is a… — Vikas Runwal Copy Share Image
I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
Politicians make good company for a while just as children do - their self-enjoyment is contagious. But they soon exhaust their favourite… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about… — Rami M. Shapiro Copy Share Image
Self-awareness cant be built on looking at our pluses and minuses before we look at the most basic essence of what we… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
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