I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on… — Robyn Copy Share Image
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I always think back to my childhood and I have a distinct memory of me not having any idea who I wanted… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before we can properly help the people, we have to destroy the old education... that teaches them that somebody is keeping them… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
People vastly overestimate the ability of central planners to improve on the independent action of diverse individuals. What I've learned watching regulators… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience.… — Edgar Winter Copy Share Image
In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
“What one understands is darshan (vision) and to give that understanding to others (so that he also understands) it is Gnan (knowledge).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Boxing has helped millions around the world as a trigger for self belief, identity and connecting. It is therapy for rage. — Nigel Benn Copy Share Image
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the… — Jeanette Copy Share Image
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Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher? The student replied: “Everything! Kobun, paused, then said: “No, you".” — Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi Copy Share Image
All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
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Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
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