A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysteri….
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need a….
Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to allow for the self-serving bias of everyb….
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for mysel….
Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification..
Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's fu….
To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is….
I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case..
Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he didn't make some ….
True living is not found in one's self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created everything that is good, true, and beautiful….
I'm not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size..
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to r….
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image..
The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and ….
I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And ….
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unse….
Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so..
Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God..
The idea of self-government is foreign to Americans. ... Self-government is a form of self-control, self-limitation. It goes against our whole grain.….
I don't know why, but there's always the part of you, the part that hides in the shadows protecting the self-destruct button, that doesn't ever want ….
Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are go….