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I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
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Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of… — Patrick Shade Copy Share Image
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
Yes, you can get a man to do just about anything, and you know it. So, what are you going to attract… — David Deida Copy Share Image
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
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The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself-… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
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It is said that “there is a self,” but “non-self” too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is… — Nagarjun Copy Share Image
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Chances are, the aliens will not want to land on our backyard, or even the White House lawn, with their flying saucers.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep… — Elizabeth O'Connor Copy Share Image
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
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I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect . . .… — Vicki Lansky Copy Share Image
There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness,… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend, and when thy impartial justice concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
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It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of… — Albert Low Copy Share Image
It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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