If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair every day?" and you start….

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self..

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case..

Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sag….

The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfor….

Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet ….

I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is ove….

Here's the thing, you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self but in a guy you would totally,….

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict..

In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when you realize there is no absolut….

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole d….

Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the Ame….

It is easy to coast through life rather than find the will to continually reach out into the world. To reach out is to risk. There is little grace ….

I feel different. You know this many times over, because you are a parent, but it transforms you. It's this incredible experience where, in one way, ….

If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting h….

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight..

Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as….

The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is ….

We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this….

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression ..

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we're embraced for who we are..