All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In an effort to create safety and self-reliance in your life and relationships, you may have built walls around your heart and… — David Deida Copy Share Image
No mistakes, I'd promised myself that i would make no mistakes, no matter how minimal they seemed. if i held her hand,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“afflictions are classed as peripheral mental factors and are not themselves any of the six main minds [eye, ear, nose, tongue, body… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
“Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“If you could be anyone else, who would you want to be?” I ask, because I’ve decided that I admire how David… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
Many of the self-described "political refugees" who come here make stopovers in other countries on their way to the U.S., in places… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I've never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing the poorest psychic land, for if she… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
Everything in life starts with yourself ,why we have to look outside for love and security , when we are love ,… — Nate Copy Share Image
Is it better to strive for success as a self-representing artist or try to get your feet wet in the gallery world?… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
It's important to realize that inquiry is about noticing, not about dropping the thought... Inquiry is not about getting rid of thoughts;… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states - “fear societies” and “free societies.”… The two societies make up… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*,… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I grew up thinking you're either a winner in the world, or you're not. I presumed I was not. I had no… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which… — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image