“Unhappily, things get clearer as we go along. I perceive that I have no body. What's less, I've been speaking of myself… — John Barth Copy Share Image
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
People ask, why hasn't that person busted out? Almost always, at the end of it, consciously or subconsciously, it hasn't happened because… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend! It doth control and also doth obey? And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“But you possess one quality that no one else does. Oh? Your identity. Your history, deeds and situation. Use those to shape… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In the information age, the barriers [to entry into programming] just aren't there. The barriers are self imposed. If you want to… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is a world class liar. Just look at her pathetic email server statements, or her phony landing - or her… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not… — Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned… — Alvin R. Dyer Copy Share Image
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
“Self-Portrait at Twenty" I stood inside myself like a dead tree or a tower. I pulled the rope of braided hair and… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone’s worldly authority. People abuse… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-care because… — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair… — Lil' Kim Copy Share Image
I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We have this sense that there's something bigger than us, above and beyond. If you take away the idea of God, you… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
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