If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place w….

No self is of itself alone..

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort..

We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay..

she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face..

The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to ….

I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked ….

Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves..

Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow….

That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions….

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affecti….

Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers..

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression..

Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly featured i….

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the fol….

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others..

If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool..

You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You….

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause..

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct..

Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly..