I know," he said, looking down at himself self-consciously. "I am not-I mean, I look-" "Beautiful," she said, and she meant it. "You look beautiful, ….
I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist..
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command..
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in….
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that….
Think ye by gazing on each other's eyes To multiply your lovely selves?.
The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerab….
Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addre….
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering..
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-pro….
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow fo….
First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others..
I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that core of my be….
A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing..
For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a ….
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge..
Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice..
This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing..
Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be co….
I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I ….
The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living..