When people hear that I have a chronic illness, they'll say things like "Focus on you." Well, my spiritual and emotional fulfillment… — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man's paralyzing trauma is another man's invitation to take control… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
No. I took this job in self-defense. Quain burns everything. Belen thinks jerky is all we need to survive. Flea's idea of… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to… — Eikoh Hosoe Copy Share Image
It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north,… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“The very purpose of an ego defence such as reification (or indeed any ego defence) is, as the name implies, to protect… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It is like a dream. I didn't sleep for two nights because I was under so much pressure. That elusive medal is… — Michaela Dorfmeister Copy Share Image
Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Not being perfect, we reject ourselves. And the level of self-rejection depends upon how effective the adults were in breaking our integrity.… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose… — Anne Fontaine Copy Share Image
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self… — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love.… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a… — David Dudley Field II Copy Share Image
God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
True humility is intelligent self-respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us mindful of… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
“We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise; And then, if we are true to plan, Our… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
You mostly.” Her hands went still again as her eyes stared off into the past with a look so wistful it made… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Girls study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
I've often said that the only thing I can change with magick is myself. I believe that. Whatever changes I wish to… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The one who has become free from all mistakes, he has no superior over him; he needs no one to reprimand him.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a… — Neil Clark Warren Copy Share Image
I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image