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It's a new stage and a new moment in my life. I'm moving forward. It feels quite inspiring, fun, and positive. As… — Jessica Biel Copy Share Image
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I feel self-conscious for even having met so many other band people and artists, I don't want to be that artist that… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
“My dear friends, from the devil's standpoint there is not the slightest difference between being puffed up with pride in yourself or… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended. People are not only, as the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“What is the Soul like? It is in the form of projected imagination. When one falsely believes ‘I am Chandubhai’, that additional… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality.… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
When we find delight in another person, we've actually found something joyful inside ourselves that involves a shift in our awareness, a… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Cats were often familiars to workers of magic because to anyone used to wrestling with self-willed, wayward, devious magic--which was what all… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
“When is 'our' worldly interaction considered good? It is from the moment 'we' have become saiyamit (in control of one's mind-body and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
“The theme of invisibility has haunted me for many years, since earliest girlhood. A woman often feels ‘invisible’ in a public sense… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
2006 Games -by then, my identity had started to shift. Before that, my identity was in snowboarding. That's how people knew me… — Kelly Clark Copy Share Image
We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals.… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
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To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out,… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
The biggest moments of insecurity come when all self-confidence is lost and you feel like people are watching and judging. It should… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“If I'm to have a character that others admire, I need to focus on developing that character. I need to make decisions… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Feelings are you inner guidance system-your emotional compass. When you allow this compass to direct your actions you build self-trust. When you… — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
“Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those… — Craig Biddle Copy Share Image