Surprisingly, it's forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by… — Paul Buchheit Copy Share Image
Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven't. An actor can't hide himself behind paper or canvas. If… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
“Self-love is the most important love to have. When we love ourselves we’re much happier and need less from others. There can… — Darryl Duke Copy Share Image
“You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter… — Ramona Ausubel Copy Share Image
How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image,… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Own the room. Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law,… — John Major Copy Share Image
And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The problem is that we as a society simply accept these unrealistic standards: that you have to be thin to be perfect,… — Crystal Renn Copy Share Image
I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences… — Otto Scharmer Copy Share Image
“Besides the Self [Soul], what is everything else? It is all worldly interactions (vyavahar). And worldly interaction is dependent on the non-Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish… — V. Raymond Edman Copy Share Image
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . .… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better, not just at meditating, but at a wide… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
It almost seems as if autumn were the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned, more creative when… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment. Even modern wars are… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
“I've always believed that we don't choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I… — Renee Zellweger Copy Share Image
There is something in these moments of crisis that is really extraordinary about humanity and human beings' resilience and the way in… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having… — Lulu Copy Share Image
The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
![“Besides the Self [Soul], what is everything else? It is all worldly interactions (vyavahar). And worldly interaction is dependent on the non-Self (parashrit). Because people believe the non-Self dependent state (parashrit) to be Self-dependent (swashrit); you too believe it to be so. How can a…” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a42/dada-bhagwan-31_believe_besides-the-self-soul-what-is-everything_1699851.jpg)
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