Assertiveness Quote by David Barksdale

“Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become…

— Anne Brontë

“By the time I left college, I realized I'd never be happy unless I undid a lifetime of conformist conditioning. Thus, I reversed my…

— Daniel Price

“Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism – the tendencies of greed – the tendencies…

— Abhijit Naskar

“...if one civilized man were doomed to pass a dozen years amid a race of intractable savages, unless he had power to improve them,…

— Anne Brontë

“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“There is another danger which you can scarcely hope to escape. It is the weight of the past. Not only will you esteem material…

— Vita Sackville-West

“We grow crisp and crotchety, fully half our organs ignore our commands--whistling to themselves, as it were, while we struggle to bring them to…

— Mark Slouka

“The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.”

— Rachel Abbott

“There is indeed in the contemplation of beauty of any kind, something which detaches us from ourselves by making us feel that perfection is…

— Benjamin Constant

“We stare vacantly into our own future, frightened of all that time confiscates from us. We lament the theft of our beauty, youth, and…

— Shakieb Orgunwall

“Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“a regimen of hardship and humiliation that at least offered you the dignity of feeling like your existence bore some sort of relationship to…

— Tom Perrotta