I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“You do not have to renounce anything. The path of liberation is not one of acquisition or renunciation at all. Acquisition and renunciation are… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The titles of Jesus (son of God, messiah, light of the world, etc.) are not found in the earliest layer of tradition… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Skin is not only an envelope protecting the inner body, or a membrane that allows exchange between exterior and interior of the… — Miru Kim Copy Share Image
For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self… — Rory Vaden Copy Share Image
“Personal growth commences with an ego death. Self-pride blunts personal growth because the ego resists change. The ego wants to maintain the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
In a time when everybody is talking about finding oneself, how do you find yourself? I wanted to do it as literally… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
People say to me, Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves. Really? What kind of people are these with… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It… — George W. Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
As I've grown as an artist, I've learned that my mission statement is really self-expression. I don't want anybody to classify my… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He… — Kangana Ranaut Copy Share Image
“We are not our feelings. We are not our moods. We are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of… — Peter London Copy Share Image
I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a… — Israel Rosenfield Copy Share Image
Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them.… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The other part is about my learning 'self-love' journey. It requires me to face 'choices' and to be totally comfortable with them.… — Jordan M. Alexander Copy Share Image
In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to… — Edwin Booth Copy Share Image
It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout… — Rick Scott Copy Share Image
I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image