A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The discovery of radioactivity created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interpretation of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“What is considered as Purusharth (real spiritual effort to progress as the Self)? It is when there is a sense of independence… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent,… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas!… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Do you know what separates adults from children? Self-discipline. We don’t want to go to work, we don’t want to do our… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
If your own strong ego clashes with other strong egos, you not going to get anywhere. I studied psychology and learned about… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth… — Bonnie Baker Copy Share Image
I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from… — Vincent Nichols Copy Share Image
Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my… — Joseph Gurney Cannon Copy Share Image
At some point you have to own up to how great you are, how beautiful you are, to how much inner dignity… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves.… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The idea of submission is never meant to allow someone to overstep another's boundaries. Submission only has meaning in the context of… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
How you see your self determines how the enemy sees you. Consider yourself as a great person, with power and very influential… — Sessah-Odai Sadick Copy Share Image
In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I thought The Limits of Control could be interpreted in two ways: as the limits of one's self-control; and as the limits… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
