To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of thousands chains will vanish — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep… — Eckhart Tolle 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
The sense of self is one of the obscurations that prevents us from seeing clearly, the idea that there is a self… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
Sometimes in L.A., we get accused of being superficial. I feel like Portland's the opposite, in that there's a greater depth of… — Ruben Fleischer Copy Share Image
“Their (men) sense of self is defined through their ability to achieve results. They experience fulfillment primarily through success and accomplishment.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
I will always be fashion. I try to pull it together. I think that comes from a sense of self. That's how… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
All around me, I see girls forced to become rat racers in the College Application Industrial Complex, the subculture where students must… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
“[...]you learn how much space there is between the way you want to be seen, the way you feel inside, and the… — Isa K Copy Share Image
Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Each day I was more vulnerable than the last. Each day he stripped away more of my sense of self. And now… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
In New York, a 13-year-old Indian girl came up to me crying, saying to everyone nearby, 'This is where I come from.'… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
“barometer of success in later life is not that they always win, but how they deal with failure. An ability to pick… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“When the world turns and and we operate at our own personal vibration, it is in our power to withhold our dignity… — Will Barnes Copy Share Image
To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He… — John Stott Copy Share Image
I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability… — Virginia Satir 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
Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to leave… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
“Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be… — Graeme Galton Copy Share Image
“Being held by him, kissed and mastered, taken under and swept away, enthralled her in a way she—an independent woman if nothing… — Tracy Sumner Copy Share Image
“And how easy it was to leave this life, after all - this life that could feel so present and permanent that… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For ages you have come and gone courting this delusion. For ages you have run from the pain and forfeited the ecstasy.… — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
“The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Reading these stories, it's tempting to think that the arts to be learned are those of tracking, hunting, navigating, skills of survival… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“If you start with the idea that addiction isn’t a primary disease, but an attempt to solve a problem, then you soon… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image