Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper ….

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what m….

Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee sucks honey from flow….

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins..

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is..

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are..

Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing!.

I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do..

I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher..

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?.

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life..

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regim….

In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it also produced, in rea….

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the da….

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know….

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then….

Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - ….

As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation end. And then it ….

Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success ? for what shall it profit a man if he g….

I know one gay ex-Mormon who is a talented, self-destructive alcoholic. Whenever he is drunk and going on a tear, we are back to the Mormon Church an….

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity..