After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something lar….
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one….
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine..
The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience impo….
Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor..
Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal..
[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrific….
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes..
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute..
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of….
Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consumi….
What does remembering ourselves mean? It essentially means coming back to life- re-membering..
The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when ….
We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of e….
Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it ….
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things..
Self-respect is the best of all..
Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals..
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love….
The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell m….
For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it..