Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And… — Russell Barkley Copy Share Image
There are certain ways you have to delude yourself. Self-delusion is important, for instance in family life. You know what I mean?… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I was really inspired by seeing self published zines and mini-comics: seeing someone else make work that was either really personal, or… — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The way you will experience and feel about yourself is not determined by how other people look and feel about you. The… — Gary Renard Copy Share Image
“Where Knowledge of the Self (Gnan) prevails and where dispassion for worldly life (vairaag) reaches its pinnacle, that is when the state… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
The interpretation of a case is corroborated only by the successful continuation of a self-formative process, that is by the completion of… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The insanity has to stop...It affects each and every one of us, in multiple and nefarious ways: our self-image, how we show… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“Who else could you have been but exactly who you are? I said. Did you, in the womb, construct yourself? All your… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If someone had said to me before I started doing this that a human being is capable of running 100 miles nonstop,… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing.… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Life is about finding out who you are and what you realy do. You need to know yourself and not change your… — Klyte Copy Share Image
The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What is impossible to me as an imitator of Christ, becomes perfectly natural as a participant of Christ. It is Only when… — F. Huegel Copy Share Image
The internationalization of art becomes a factor contributing to the estrangement of art from the artist. The sum of works of all… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the bestiality of emotions: it absolutely disgusts people. When you're feeling pity for yourself, and somebody says to you 'You… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water”… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Racism is the ultimate ignorance in that it relates 'self' to the body instead of the Consciousness - Awareness - animating and… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image