Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this… — John Redwood 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
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
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
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
For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we… — Sidney Jourard Copy Share Image
Well, the kind of central question: "Do you want to live - and I don't mean stay alive - do you want… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn't be decent if… — Lloyd C. Douglas Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
So, here we are - all part of this great hologram called Creation, which is everybody else's SELF.It's all a cosmic play,… — Itzhak Bentov Copy Share Image
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That… — Vance Havner 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one. — Ashleigh Brilliant 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
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
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
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