Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless..
Many people live in a self-imposed prison and don't even know it..
The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter wi….
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it’s that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it’s going to work. It’s astonishi….
The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, ….
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sa….
His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile..
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge..
Job security is a myth...it is also risky for self-employed people in my opinion. If they get sick, injured, or die, their income is directly impacte….
Your false self is always that which is passing away. Your true self doesn't go up or down, it's constant - it's a rock. Once you learn how to live t….
The point of yoga is to develop a level of clarity and self-understand ing so that when we’re done doing our yoga practice we make really good decisi….
What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am be….
Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writi….
Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy..
There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-ful….
I went to a bookstore the other day. I asked a woman behind the counter where the self-help books were. She said, ‘If I told you, that would defeat t….
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awarene….
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists ….
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent..
Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation..
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs..