I truly believe that the death of my mother has made me the way I am today. I am a survivor, mentally… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Now you are changed people. Your personality is different. It's shining through your spirit. In that spirit, you have to see everything.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it,… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of… — Patricia Aburdene Copy Share Image
The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
There is no love like a mother’s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their… — Francis C Farley Copy Share Image
We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of… — Esther Earl Copy Share Image
Lift up your eyes upon This day breaking for you. Give birth again To the dream. Women, children, men, Take it into… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“When you’re sick and dying, the ego is and should be the first thing to go. I know there’re gurus who teach… — J.R. Rain Copy Share Image
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“No effort is needed for each and every thing to revert back to its inherent natural state. Effort is required to take… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of the worldly life (sansar)? God lives in every living being of the world, that means if you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image