. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know….
Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life..
Who you are depends on who you meet..
I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when….
There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in self-criticism often d….
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But ….
As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious….
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face..
I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings..
Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves..
It takes a tremendous act of courage to admit to yourself that you are not defective in any way whatsoever..
Always say less than necessary..
Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be ab….
What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite liv….
The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variet….
There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management..
Comparison is the death of true self-contentment..
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, bu….
At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom an….
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor ….
Only that which can be switched, can be..