I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find… — Ruthie Ann Miles Copy Share Image
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins… It… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Self-censorship as a result of intimidation or social pressures, sometimes referred to as "political correctness", constitutes a serious obstacle to the proper… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Only when Stephen Strange has his accident and everything that he's ever had in his life falls apart that he becomes pretty… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error. — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind. It leads you on a beautiful journey… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.' — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures,… — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
When was the last time you thanked you for always being there for you? Self appreciation soothes an aching soul. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?” "Because they’re talented. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice,… — Kristi Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The world is the puzzle, itself. The one who solves this ‘puzzle’ attains the degree of Parmatma [the Absolute Supreme Self].” — Dada Bhagwan 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
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
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light. — Aaron Cohen 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
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
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
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
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