'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else..
Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy..
For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new..
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance..
The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her not only in themselves, their tender sp….
He who stands on tiptoe is not steady. He who strides cannot maintain the pace. He who makes a show is not enlightened. He who is self-righteous is n….
Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always makes me laugh. Amis has managed to create a worl….
Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defe….
I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone.
Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self..
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wis….
Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process….
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back….
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion..
There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship t….
We can use doubt to self analyze. A measure of doubt can help us to attain self-honesty. But, like too much water, too much doubt will also destroy u….
What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly….
David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington ….
The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the ene….
The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direct….
Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uni….