We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the sel….
I am self-educated from genre books..
But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you lo….
I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me..
It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living..
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from….
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exp….
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made condition….
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fi….
My philosophy is, "murder the rapist in your mind so you stop killing yourself." I've seen, in my lifetime, that sexual abuse has turned into self-ab….
If I want to be great, I have to win the victory over myself...self-d iscipline..
Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial..
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me….
Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of r….
Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me..
If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that create? Energy: positive and negative, self-lo….
Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled i….
If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. B….
No self-respecting pitcher throws the same way to every batter and no self-respecting salesman makes the same pitch to every client..
Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. T….
There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle..