There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Just as full sunlight completely dispels all darkness but even a few rays provide a measure of light, so, if we complete… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life… — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
There are books in rivulets and sermons in stones. You can gather lessons from everything. If a man does nothing whatsoever he… — Kirpal Singh Copy Share Image
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child's natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is… — Virginia Axline Copy Share Image
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“We all create an outward self with which to face the world, and some people come to believe that is what they… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late.… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
One who practices self compassion does not drag their feet when it comes time to perform a task. People with self compassion… — Dr Anil Kumar Sinha Copy Share Image
Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“It’s not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it’s the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“The Gnani Purush (the Self-realized One who can help others attain Self-realization) is in fact considered as a sevak (person who renders… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Against the prevailing mindset of our day—you are what you make of yourself—union with Christ tells you that you can discover your… — Rankin Wilbourne Copy Share Image
If we don't have a clear sense of our identity and purpose, we are much more vulnerable to Lucifer. He of course… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.… — James Allen Copy Share Image
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy,… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I feel like today's culture seeks at every turn to place more and more power in the hands of the individual. Bookstores… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
“It was, in part, a longing – common enough among the inventors of heroes – to be someone else; to be more… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
