Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living… — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
“The absence of misery is the first stage of moksha (liberation). The absence of the body, everything else is the second state… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Be your own fan. We need self-reinforcement, a belief in ourselves that is strong and unwavering. Be ready to pick yourself up… — David Niven Copy Share Image
If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I think the paparazzi is a necessary evil...and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to… — Gail O'Grady Copy Share Image
The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. In a way, no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
What kind of man reads Playboy? He is fastidious about his appearance, his home and his possessions. He wants as much sex… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
Some ego is involved because I guess one wants to be perceived as a good clown and one puts one's name on… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors,… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the importance of self-belief to transform your own organization, to reassure nervous clients, and to change the future of our… — Ken Kaess Copy Share Image
Self pity is worst enemy.If we yield to it,we may never rise to occasion & will always project ourself as doomed one. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual. — Myriam Miedzian Copy Share Image
Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The law of sarvaatma (oneness with all living beings) means that everywhere 'I am indeed the one'. In this (world), with whom… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes… — Roger N. Walsh Copy Share Image
I love being around a person that makes me not want to be more like them, but makes me want to be… — Esther Povitsky Copy Share Image
To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“i am not an angel ,and i don't want to be an angel. I Born as a Human and and my Biggest… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active,… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
