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
“Many strong girls have similar stories: They were socially isolated and lonely in adolescence. Smart girls are often the girls most rejected… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I think what we took away from first hearing about the punk stuff in England and then the early American punk stuff… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance,… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more space… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong,… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
For most women being other-directed, focused on how other people feel and nurturing them, was (and can still be) a quality that… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster. — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“For the girls the regular comings and goings restored their superior sense of self, a superiority they had received intact from Moran… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“A solid sense of self develops from confronting yourself, challenging yourself to do what’s right, and earning your own self-respect.” — David Schnarch Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly,… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Long-distance runners have to be very strange people. You have to really want to do it. You don't have to win or… — Ted Corbitt Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that… — K.L. Toth Copy Share Image
When you fix something with your hands it gives you a sense of accomplishment and a sense of self worth. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation.… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“ Your lingering presence erodes me. Heartbeat by heartbeat. Cell by aging cell. Washing away any sense of self I ever had.… — S.A. McAuley Copy Share Image
“Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, a society with no sense of the past, with no sense of the human role as significant not merely in experiencing… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Yet why all this resistance? Why this powerful attraction to the darkness? Jesus says, “Everybody who does wrong hates the light and… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“If there's no sense of self, there's no sense of culture. If there's no sense of wisdom, there's no sense of progress.… — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
