Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities --… — Henri Lebesgue Copy Share Image
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other:… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“What is the definition of Gnan [true knowledge]? It is that which must be present without fail when needed. Who should be… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the death of my mother has made me the way I am today. I am a survivor, mentally… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Seeing a photograph of myself is often pretty jarring. Why is it that the vision I see of myself in a photo… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
As a counselor, I have spoken with many people who want to know their spiritual gifts. They come hoping for some sort… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
Your life began in the heart & mind of the Infinite. Mentally relive the days when as a child you ran free,… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts.… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“If you're anything like me, You bite your nails, And laugh when you're nervous. You promise people the world, because that's what… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism.… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image