Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
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A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization -… — Reuven Feuerstein Copy Share Image
The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage. — Mark Lowry Copy Share Image
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If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
... the mere thought of going near a man who is not mellowly pickled, and whose breath reeks of his native fleshy… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
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Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is… — William Booth Copy Share Image
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Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
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The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that… — Plato Copy Share Image
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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even when nothing is happening, nothing stands still. ... I am not a rock, but a river; people deceive themselves by seeing… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
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