In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?.
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us..
...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump..
Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be ….
The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in the early-to-mid 20th cent….
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self..
I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express i….
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a worl….
It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and healthy. That doesn’t mean you disregard everyt….
Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of se….
The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places. It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of natur….
Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then live a new life as a Buddha..
True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a necessary ….
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is t….
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-governm….
In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfo….
Self-respect leads to self-discipline..
We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the rea….
Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self..
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was….
In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mi….