Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
“Nothing worldly will ever become the Self (the Soul). The Self [the Soul] will never become worldly. Both are separate things.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Purusharth (effort) is in the form of planning (cause), whereas prarabdh (unfolding of past life karma) is that which materializes as an… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“What is pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body)? It is influx and outflow; it is credit and debit. And if you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Though man or angel judge my life and read it like an open scroll, And weigh my heart, I have judge more… — Ridgely Torrence Copy Share Image
"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
We all have our worries about our bodies and our looks. We just need to make the best of our lovely, wonky… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
“Your title is what you are; your visions are who you are. When you know who you are, then you will know… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Your Self Image Is Your Pattern!.. Every Thought Has An Activity Visualized. Every Activity Belongs To A Pattern. You Identify With Your… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that… — Jay Carr Copy Share Image
“The one who attains the 'Akram' path, will have his spiritual work done. (On this path), you have neither been made to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare to inflict.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering. — Ian Davis Copy Share Image
The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis]sees a world in need of the Gospel, and of friendship with Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the self-absorption and… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change. — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image