We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so ….

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws..

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-resp….

When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security ….

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt..

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here t….

I wrote to my bishop, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, and explained that I wanted not just permission to stay longer, but a mission. He met me at….

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century..

... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire univers….

It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are..

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. B….

In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending th….

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy ….

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense..

What's great about going on tour is that it immediately unburdens me of those self-centered misconceptions. Because suddenly, with these songs you've….

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-….

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred..

First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and that which surrounds them. Anyo….

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me..

So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is bo….

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient..