Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The great task is to claim yourself for yourself, so that you can contain your needs within the boundaries of your self… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“In a word, the Self has two qualities: it is unjust in itself since it makes itself the centre of everything; it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries."… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions,… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
I really like Adam Curtis' 'Century of Self.' It's about how artists have failed the general public by being so exclusive, like… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Over against any cognition, there is an unknown but knowable reality; but over against all possible cognition, there is only the self-contradictory.… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world.… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and… — Kevin Malarkey Copy Share Image
If you're self-compassionate, you'll tend to have higher self-esteem than if you're endlessly self-critical. And like high self-esteem - self-compassion is associated… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
Passion and drive are not the same at all. Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you toward something… — Randy Komisar Copy Share Image
Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as… — Henry Thomas Hamblin Copy Share Image
The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“I learnt the most important thing you have to know: how to look after yourself. To stand by your own decisions. I… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“So, lost, erased, you seek a lifetime's days for it And dig deep to find the sweet instructions there Put by when… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
