“The only way you can reach your full potential is if you open up and allow your self to be exposed to… — Turcois Ominek Copy Share Image
Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“As individuality develops and blossoms incrementally, and it becomes fully expressed; that is the Absolute state of the Self (parmatma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Vegas is purposefully constructed as a self-enclosed and isolated biosphere, sort of what a recreational colony built on the moon might be… — Marc Cooper Copy Share Image
Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I have, actually. I'm under pressure, but I'm also observing myself under pressure from the standpoint of an onlooker. Once I create… — Yumi Hotta Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance… — Raimon Panikkar Copy Share Image
…goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“I'm persnickety," I confessed. "Not, incidentally, to the point of being snarly. But still. Delightful and persnickety are not a common blend."… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Like flowers and plants, we too need ground under our feet, warmth and sunshine and food for our spirit, protective boundaries, tending… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
I am courageous and funny I wonder how I can help others I listen to the birds sing I take time to… — Marylou Devery Copy Share Image
A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self. — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“I wish that you knew you could never make it without love for your goddamned self, and that you'll never ever find… — Angel Haze Copy Share Image
“Do not do anything for yourself. If you do only for others, then you will not have to do anything for your… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality,… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In our relationships we need to uphold that aspect of the person which is the real person and the soul beyond their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
Whenever a climber leaves the known paths, he enters an area without rules or routines... The only advice comes from deep inside… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to strong and interesting women, people who have navigated that world before you and maintained their integrity… — Janet McTeer Copy Share Image
You are not Your self until you are no longer any body's punk, servant, slave, craven. that is when you felt truly… — Wale Copy Share Image
Any musician with a slight level of self-awareness can be taught to write a 'good' song. A great song is completely original.… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
I don't want to be in my 'interview zone' mode. I've been doing a lot of interviews and I'm very self-aware of… — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect.… — Don Coppersmith Copy Share Image
Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image