I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
..."And for God's sake, never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's net-worth. As Yogi Ramen preached:… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
When we are aligned with our highest selves, we trust ourselves enough to follow our hearts. Then we are able to be… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour… — Jacques Ranciere Copy Share Image
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of… — William Temple Copy Share Image
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I shall pray to God to send charity to this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice;… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“A child can only experience his feelings when there is someone there who fully accepts them, names them and supports them. Another… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their… — Timothy Gallwey Copy Share Image
“What do the vitarags [the enlightened one] say? This world will keep on running, You do not interfere with anything in it.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
While most of our suffering is self- inflicted, some is caused by or permitted by God. This sobering reality calls for deep… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Who among us is not the great I AM? Who among us doesn't live in a nightgown or some other bare-ass outfit… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“Action is bondage in itself. Action is not needed to attain moksha (liberation). Gnan kriya (activity of the Self to See and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image