Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise. Family members may learn to be obedient, honest, industrious, self-reliant,… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly--to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
All things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain… — George Sand Copy Share Image
In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“When we are thrust out into the world just as we are, we first have to identify with that particular throw of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I can hit Shahid Afridi six sixes in an over but i know when he is going to hit 6 sixes in… — Chris Gayle Copy Share Image
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“In scriptures, there is knowledge about the different methods, it does not have the knowledge of the ultimate goal (to experience Pure… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I had to re-write "Philosophy" a lot. It was more obscure than what's in the book now, even! Some things I had… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about… — Graeme Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the… — Darius Milhaud Copy Share Image
“Each person has a crazy ego within. That crazy ego makes the good appear to be bad. The crazy ego even makes… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions,… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
What i'm trying to tell you," Min said, "is that im going to grow up to be one of those chubby old… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
