“Until you know 'Who am I?' (have realization of your true Self), merit karma is always to be accumulated [is acceptable] and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Your greatest creation is yourself. Like any great work of art, creating a great self means putting in hard work, every day,… — Vi Hart Copy Share Image
If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
At times many of us let that enemy of achievement--even the culprit 'self-defeat'--dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud our vision, and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self-… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared… — Pope Julius II Copy Share Image
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It's only when we are out in the wild - with nothing on our schedules and nowhere to escape to - do… — Nimish Dayalu Copy Share Image
The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore… — Laozi Copy Share Image
True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Sankalp (my-ness) - vikalp (I-ness) itself is aropit bhaav (deluded view; Wrong belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The prakruti (relative self, made of inherent traits) will decrease as you ‘see’ it. Until you do not see the prakruti, it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image