When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently,… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
To feel a full and untrammeled joy is to have become fully generous; to allow our selves to be joyful is to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had… — Bill Crow Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My mum told me when I was young life doesn't come with instructions and I sat there all night wondering who teaches… — Daniel Starns Copy Share Image
The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I want to be older. I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips,… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“Buddha is someone with a very advanced self-concept. His self-esteem is perfect; he has gone beyond doubt; he knows, and he is… — Joy Manne Copy Share Image
What has here happened is that the instinct of cruelty, which has turned inwards, has become self-torture, and all man's animal instincts… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“To think about essence (that which is helpful) and non-essence (that which is not helpful) is called wisdom (good judgement). If one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive… — Charlotte Mendelson Copy Share Image
In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species.… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
It has become a commonplace that aggressiveness also often has its roots in fear. I am inclined to think that this theory… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The nature of the Atma, the Self (Soul) is bliss indeed. So it does not want unpleasant feelings at all, does it?… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Don’t twist yourself into a pretzel just to be liked. Be your fabulous self so the right people will love you. Trying… — Life is Positive Copy Share Image
The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Anarchism is in reality the ideal of political and social science, and also the ideal of religion. It is the ideal to… — R. Heber Newton Copy Share Image
And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean ‘inner selves’, the thing that… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
THE FIRST STEP in changing the future is Desire, that is, define your objective - know definitely what you want. SECOND: construct… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
To do one's best in the face of the commonplace struggles of life, and possibly in the face of failures, and to… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image