I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better… — Nancy A. Collins Copy Share Image
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Don't stop yourself from greatness before you've begun from fear or from self-doubt. You were put here on this planet to do… — Kaiden Blake Copy Share Image
Taking responsibility nurtures self-confidence, and self-confidence can help you to be a more interesting and attractive person. And best of all, the… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to… — James E. Ferrell Copy Share Image
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive;… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When I lacked even the self-respect to keep myself alive, she dabbed my cuts and I fell back into being a son;… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Each of us needs periods in which our minds can focus inwardly. Solitude is an essential experience for the mind to organize… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
“Hypocrisy—in other words, the practice of lying about lying—shields us from seeing ourselves as we are: a collocation of fragments that fit… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Even if you run in ‘this’ racecourse for endless lives, you will get cheated in the end; such is this world! Everything… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings… — Kenneth Wapnick Copy Share Image
“The danger lies in how your ‘surplus time’ is spent. If the ‘surplus time’ is spent for one’s own Soul, then it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Pride takes innumerable forms but has only one end: self-glorification. That’s the motive and ultimate purpose of pride—to rob God of legitimate… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
James says, "You desire and do not have; so you kill" (Jas. 4:2). We kill marriages and we kill unborn babies because… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Don't think because I'm a positive dude, I'm going to always say something nice. If you come at me crooked, one too… — Malik Yoba Copy Share Image
I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying, 'How To Be Happy, by Stephen Fry: Guaranteed Success'. And people… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
![“The danger lies in how your ‘surplus time’ is spent. If the ‘surplus time’ is spent for one’s own Soul, then it is (like) watering your own farm, but when it is used for other things [other than one’s own self], it is wasted water. Therefore, anyone whose ‘surplus time’ is spent on the Self, all…” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/dada-bhagwan-31_anger_the-danger-lies-in-how-your-surplus-time_2065614.jpg)
![“At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social…” quote by Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10d/jaron-lanier-2241_21st-century_at-the-turn-of-the-21st-century-it-was-r_345382.jpg)
![“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far…” quote by Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/oliver-stone-1812_american-life_if-we-americans-are-a-strong-people-a-un_2148721.jpg)
