Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind..
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living cre….
To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to n….
Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum..
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for in….
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I….
Yes, our enlightenment process is coming, but now it's about accepting our own imperfection as a human being, and through that we come back to a plac….
Surrounded by noises from televisions, airplanes, subways and automobiles, most of us 'tune out' for self-protection..
Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of….
All significant battles are fought within self..
I often wish for the end of the wretched remnant of my life; and that wish is a rational one; but then the innate principle of self-preservation, wis….
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose o….
Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our ….
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, s….
The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not recognize, realize that each of….
You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over ….
To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself.
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness - each system only too deligh….
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable..
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to cour….
Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them..