You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see a lot of young female performers who do not call themselves feminist, but would certainly believe in their own right… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything,… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think that if you make something that's relatable then people will attach themselves to it. You can express it in a… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“When you've lived as long as I you'll see that every human being has his shell and that you must take the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion… As well might we expect a patient to recover without food… — Richard Clarke Cabot Copy Share Image
Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful.… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression ‘I… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Our self-identification changes with our environment, but sometimes those dark thoughts permeate within us and there are those who are able to… — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“What is called a vishaya (involvement in worldly subjects and sense pleasures)? It is that in which the mind, speech and body… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that the country was electing Republicans, Obama wasn't being stopped, and it's because of the political system. The political… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on… — Theodore L. Cuyler 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
One whose soul does not wander in the expanses, one who does not seek the light of truth and goodness with all… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I approach the film business the way I feel about self-esteem. It's something that has to be maintained. That's kind of how… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
“There is no problem if graha (things getting accumulated) does not turn into parigraha (acquisitiveness; that what takes one away from the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective,… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image