“The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its… — Annie Ali Copy Share Image
Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain."… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“As long as the tendency for unity of the mind-speech and body prevails, it is considered acceptable to undertake worldly interactions. In… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not True, things don't stay the same… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I do feel there is a certain amount of distance and apathy that's created when you feel like there's a distance between… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Part of the ache, I know, comes from my own sense of still not being quite up to the job of being… — Katrina Kennison Copy Share Image
I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me,… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“The world is a book of many pages waiting to be read. The self is a library of ancient tomes written in… — Gregory V. Diehl Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In many inner cities, there are issues of less economic stability, poorer education, community centers being stripped away, arts being removed from… — Mya Copy Share Image
For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone… — James Harvey Robinson Copy Share Image
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Expectations are nothing more than the rules we set, in order to maintain our ego and self esteem. What we seek from… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
While you can't keep your heart from getting broken, you can stop breaking your own heart...once you realize the difference between what… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Speaking of Self-realizatio n is a delusion. It is only because people have been under the delusion that the non-Self is the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We focus on that really repulsive minority of racists. But then there's a continuum that goes all the way to, you know,… — George Packer Copy Share Image
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
You live in a time of great challenges and opportunities. As spirit sons of heavenly parents, you are free to make the… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Hopefully I've shown them (fellow cyclists) you just need some self-belief and that you need to take your destiny into your own… — Jens Voigt Copy Share Image
You can't let people scare you. You can't go your whole life trying to please everyone else. You can't go through life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Here’, I am a disciple just as you are. The one you see is not ‘Dada Bhagwan’; it is ‘A. M. Patel’,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image