“The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle: fascinated by the realm of the senses it swings from one desire to… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“This witnessing consciousness, this formless dimension of yourself, is the awareness in which your experience happens, yet it remains untouched by this… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
To have respect for the self means to have the right state of mind and the right way of working with the… — Dr BK Satyanarayan Copy Share Image
Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner… — Roberto Assagioli Copy Share Image
“Love seeketh not Itself to please Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease And builds a Heaven… — William Blake Copy Share Image
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive.… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“People who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves form learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of evidence in us against it. The… — Richard Lovelace Copy Share Image
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
There are no secrets of success. Success is doing the things you know you should do. Success is not doing the things… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic"… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
Much praying is not done because we do not plan to pray. We do not drift into spiritual life; we do not… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
And freedom comes with grace, kindness, understanding, and love. Don't take anything personal, folks. Whatever is said about you or rumored or… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
I started my career as a sales guy in the nineties, when the funnel was controlled by the sales rep, who had… — Brian Halligan Copy Share Image
To love someone is to always see them as the miracle that they are; as the miracle that they exist, the miracle… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other.… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
