Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women,… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good… — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
I know there's a lot of talk about self-publishing right now. Everyone's giddy with the possibilities. And I'll admit that it looks… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and… — Gina Berriault Copy Share Image
The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
Love fulfilled sees where we could have gone the way of love before, if we'd known how, and how insecurities limited many… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Men who as boys felt neglected by their dads often remain distant from their children. The sins of fathers are passed on… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same… — Horace Kallen Copy Share Image
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Self fulfillment thinks of how something serves me. Self development thinks of how something helps me to serve others. With self fulfillment,… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Masturbation is not only an expression of self-regard: it is also the natural emotional outlet of those who...have already accepted as inevitable… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone.… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
“What is the assurance that one is Vitaraag? The answer is, it is when no worldly things come to memory. Besides attaining… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don’t measure… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
