Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
I've never been diagnosed with anything, I've self diagnosed myself with multiple personality disorder and DID.
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.
Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves.
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines
With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.
A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants
Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.
I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.
The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.
National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement.
Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.
By removing that which is petty and self-seeking, we bring forth all that is glorious and mindful of the whole.
How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.
You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery.
While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.
Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53)
Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.
'Ninnu Kori' urges us to take a broader view of life, look past stumbling blocks, and rise above self sympathy.
The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.
And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.
Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.
All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.
Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.
Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
There's something about cats' self-sufficiency and their seemingly individualistic ways that I find compelling.
Writing mirrors the interior self. You know, any book is like the perfect blueprint of the psyche of the author.
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.
As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.