“Why can’t you just be yourself?” Stella asked once. “Maybe I don’t know who that is,” her daughter shot back. And Stella… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations,… — African Spir Copy Share Image
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work.… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
By realizing the reality of our Prince within us, we are never bothered again by the fact that we do not understand… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“The Self is the only thing that is worth knowing. Nothing else in this world is worth knowing. The other things which… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Jules has always been one of those women that men go crazy about because she has enough self-confidence to say this is… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
“There is a place deep, deep inside every person that is hidden and hard to find. If things get bad enough and… — Victoria Forester Copy Share Image
You cannot fail at being yourself. A cat doesn't try to be a tiger, and you shouldn't try to be something you… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
A sort of fearlessness - the notion that a person could be comfortable with (even interested in) whatever arises. I sure can't… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Christianity in the West, opens up a perspective of depth into what it means to be a self. And that depth of… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I was heading in a self destructive direction. My priority wasn't together, wasn't in order. So me getting locked up was actually… — Prodigy Copy Share Image
“As long as one does not have Knowledge of the Self, his renunciation (tyaag) will give result. And after attaining the Knowledge of the Self, there… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through… — MaryAnn F. Kohl Copy Share Image
Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Harmonizing heart and brain through love is what can establish a complete intelligence, a complete self, where a child can look at… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ...… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“No effort is needed for each and every thing to revert back to its inherent natural state. Effort is required to take… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of the worldly life (sansar)? God lives in every living being of the world, that means if you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine"… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
![“Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused” quote by Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbb/brennan-manning-959_ambiguous_whenever-i-allow-anything-but-tenderness_2805528.png)
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