Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself..
It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself.….
Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distan….
The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your….
Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level o….
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist cent….
We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free..
That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization..
I monitor my self-talk, making sure that it is uplifting and supportive of myself and others..
In love, for example - the so-called love - we are 'related.' We appear to be related. We create the fallacy of a relationship, but in fact we are ju….
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted..
There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured, and that place is only within ourselves. A place to clean the grime of life, a place that….
When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels..
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages..
When the world grinds you down, bent to tear you apart, cling to what you hold dear, and stay true to your heart. For the world has a way to dismantl….
You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of th….
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort o….
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered….
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world exc….
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the….
Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack ….