A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
What exists in truth is the Self alone. The world, the individual soul and God are appearances in it. Like silver in… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere,… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
No one must ever let power or social, economic, or political interest turn him or her away from other human beings, from… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One’s self is the basis of everything. Every action is a manifestation of the self. A person who doesn’t know himself can… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I go - I trace depression back to things. So I go, ok, I look back and I say my self-esteem was… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
My job is to confront apathy and confront all the forces that tend to batter each of us down with all kind… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
We allow folks to divide us. I don't like this Republican/Democrat, left/right, radical/not radical division that is created by folks, particularly and… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
But an accurate definition of the self is impossible. You are more than you realize, more than you can define. And the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
“If a person wants to walk on the path of the Vitrag (Enlightened Ones), he should turn the upayog (applied awareness) from… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit.… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ego, Identity and Self - the 3 concepts of one's creation that defines them entirely. Have an Ego, for without one, there… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I… — Rupert Grint Copy Share Image
“In a word, the Self has two qualities: it is unjust in itself since it makes itself the centre of everything; it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“The great task is to claim yourself for yourself, so that you can contain your needs within the boundaries of your self… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
But never had he felt more enthralled than he was right now, sitting beside Evie on a weathered old dock, with a… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field;… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
