We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. — Liam Fox Copy Share Image
I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
... even if the right to vote brought to women no better work, no better pay, no better conditions in any way,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
“Q: Most people on a spiritual path believe that the ego impedes spiritual growth and that we’re supposed to shed the ego.… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“I never really appreciated the self-contained miniature universe that is me. I fall in love with my breathing too late, fall in… — Laura Bradley Rede Copy Share Image
“Only he who is constantly aware of the mortal nature of his existence, who knows that the flesh and blood that he… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training… — Jade Hassoune Copy Share Image
Everything starts with the inner being, your inner self - it all comes from you and we so often forget that. We… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
“Vast historical changes in the last 500 years in the West have slowly created a world in which the individual is commonly… — Philip Cushman Copy Share Image
Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about. — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt. — Ethan Gilsdorf Copy Share Image
“To Know and understand only the pudgal (the non-Self complex of input and output), that is called the Knower (Gnata).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare. — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
“There is bliss where there are talks about the Soul and the Supreme Soul (atma-parmatma); there are no worldly talks there. There… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity. — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
“To see things (vastu) ‘as it is’ in its purest form, is called samkit (enlightened view; right belief), and to see it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's… — James R. Swartz Copy Share Image
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
“Sri Krishna said: Arjuna, when one thoroughly casts off all cravings of the mind, and is satisfied in the Self through the… — Gita Press Copy Share Image
We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and… — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [ The New… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
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