Too much of a self-centered attitude creates mistrust and suspicion in others, which can in turn lead to fear. But if you… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“How can one let go of dehadhyas (the belief that, 'I am the body') whilst residing in dehadhyas? For that, go to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students.… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself. I dream of a hard… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied;… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The value of a story isn't that it just has a narcotic effect. It's that it awakens something in you that makes… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
“Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
If who you were was entirely based upon the position you were in or the headlines you got in the newspaper, or… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer… — Toru Iwatani Copy Share Image
If you can love death you become deathless; if you can understand non-being then your being becomes the very ground of being-hood,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
But surrender also means your back's to the wall and saying, "Okay, I give up." But rather it's a joyful self-offering. When… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it… — David Icke Copy Share Image
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically,… — Michele Rosenthal Copy Share Image
What is it that is most beautiful? - The Universe; for it is the work of God. What is most powerful? -… — Thales Copy Share Image
The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into… — Newell Dwight Hillis Copy Share Image
I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
