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Peter Abrahams With Shakespeare and poetry, a...
Henry B. Adams The effect of power and...
Joseph Addison True happiness arises, in the...
Theodor Adorno Not only is the self entwined...
Bhumibol Adulyadej Everyone must correct his own...
Aesop Self-conceit may lead to self...
Damon Albarn It's not like my old self...
Samuel Alexander Desire then is the invasion of...
Samuel Alexander You can mark in desire the...
Luther Allison But let's face it, I still...
B. R. Ambedkar Unlike a drop of water which...
Henri Frederic Amiel There is no respect for others...
Henri Frederic Amiel Tears are the symbol of the...
Kingsley Amis Self criticism must be my...
Kevin J. Anderson If I could go back in...
Maya Angelou If we lose love and self...
Piers Anthony I maintain an ongoing survey...
David Antin The self is an oral society...
Minna Antrim To know one's self is wisdom...
Corazon Aquino It wasn't until we got over...
Aristotle I count him braver who...
St. Francis of Assisi Above all the grace and the...
Nancy Astor Real education should educate us...
W. H. Auden Every autobiography is concerned with...
Red Auerbach The best way to forget ones...
Marcus Aurelius As the same fire assumes...
Jane Austen What wild imaginations one forms...
Irving Babbitt A man needs to look, not...
Francis Bacon There is as much difference...
Francis Bacon It is a strange desire, to...
Erykah Badu Personally, I don't choose any...
Pearl Bailey The first and worst of all...
George P. Baker Acted drama requires surrender of...
Abu Bakr To fight against the infidels...
Roger Nash Baldwin I cannot consistently, with self...
James M. Baldwin The development of the meaning...
James M. Baldwin All along we find that social...
James M. Baldwin In conclusion we may say, in...
Toni Cade Bambara Revolution begins with the self...
Natalie Clifford Barney To be one's own master is...
Martha Beck Do whatever it takes to convey...
Max Beckmann One of my problems is to...
Max Beckmann Art is creative for the sake...
Daniel Bell The intellectual takes as a...
Chris Bell The American people expect public...
Arnold Bennett If egotism means a terrific...
A. C. Benson Very often a change of self...
Bernard Berenson A complete life may be one...
John Berger Never chain your dogs together...
Halle Berry It is very hard to separate...
Benazir Bhutto The United Nations charter gives...
Josh Billings It's not only the most...
Hugo Black It is the paradox of life...
John Blair This marched was planned to be...
Linda Blair To ignore one's spiritual self...
Harold Bloom We read deeply for varied...
Bodhidharma Worship means reverence and humility...
W. E. B. Du Bois It is a peculiar sensation...
Napoleon Bonaparte The torment of precautions often...
Napoleon Bonaparte Men are Moved by two levers...
John Bradshaw Ego is to the true self...
Kenneth Branagh We're self obsessed and mad...
Constantin Brancusi Simplicity is not an objective...
Nathaniel Branden Self esteem is the reputation...
Sarah Ban Breathnach The authentic self is the soul...
Terry Brooks Testing of self is a regular...
Anatole Broyard The tension between "yes" and...
Buddha He who experiences the unity...
Joseph Butler The object of self-love is...
Lord Byron Lovers may be - and indeed...
George Byron Lovers may be and indeed...
Bliss Carman Set me a task in which...
Bliss Carman Set me a task in which...
Dale Carnegie Any fool can criticize, condemn...
Mary C. Carpenter I've never... when I was...
Edward Carpenter Do not think too much of...
Michael Chabon I found one remaining box of...
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The most satisfying thing in...
Lord Chesterfield The world is a country which...
Gilbert K. Chesterton One may understand the cosmos...
Queen Christina It is necessary to try to...
Marcus Tullius Cicero A friend is, as it were...
Marcus Tullius Cicero The spirit is the true self...
Marcus Tullius Cicero If you have no confidence in...
Sandra Cisneros I have to understand what my...
Clarence Clemons The calm mind allows one to...
Kurt Cobain Drugs are a waste of time...
Andrew Cohen When a human being becomes so...
Jim Coleman But that's something that I...
Robert Collier Your real self - the "I am...
William Collins Beloved, till life can charm...
Cyril Connolly Better to write for yourself...
Charles Horton Cooley To have no heroes is to...
Charles Horton Cooley The literature of the inner...
Charles Horton Cooley To get away from one's working...
Alice Cooper We can only take it so...
Alice Cooper You just let your lower self...
Katie Couric I've always tried to stay true...
Stephen Covey Every human has four endowments...
Graham Coxon With my daughter, who at the...
Peter Coyote The self is just not a...
Davy Crockett I have suffered my self to...
Stanley Crouch The discussion of ideas as...
Bobby Darin I realized that I needed to...
Indra Devi Like water which can clearly...
John Dewey The self is not something...
Charles Dickens A day wasted on others is...
Annie Dillard The painter... does not fit...
Wilhelm Dilthey On the other hand, for the...
Lexa Doig Men with style are great...
Elaine Dundy To love one that is great...
Kirsten Dunst But the real secret to total...
Charles Eames It is almost impossible to...
Roger Ebert I'll tell you, I think that...
John Edward Keep a journal, and learn how...
George Eliot Whether happiness may come or...
George Eliot Will not a tiny speck very...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Can anything be so elegant as...
Arthur Erickson It is the mystery of the...
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Night, the beloved. Night, when...
Margot Fonteyn The one important thing I have...
Brendan Francis At the innermost core of all...
Benjamin Franklin There are three things extremely...
Erich Fromm Love is union with somebody...
David Frost Love is when each person is...
James Anthony Froude The essence of greatness is...
Margaret Fuller It seems that it is madder...
James Galway I do not consider my self...
Marcus Garvey If you have no confidence in...
Marcus Garvey If you have no confidence in...
John Gay There is no dependence that...
Kahlil Gibran Knowledge of the self is the...
Kahlil Gibran Much of your pain is the...
Roland Gift I jumped off the wheel of...
Ellen Glasgow To teach one's self is to...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing in the world...
Al Goldstein Celebrity gives us delusion of...
Al Goldstein A self made man is a...
Billy Graham Tears shed for self are tears...
Wavy Gravy We are all the same person...
Bede Griffiths Obedience is detachment from the...
Bede Griffiths You must be ready to give...
Bede Griffiths I was being called to...
George Grosz I stood up as best I...
Paul Guilfoyle The real rub is finding that...
Thom Gunn I don't know how to sit...
G. I. Gurdjieff Without self knowledge, without understanding...
Edward T. Hall The reason man does not...
Keith Haring When it is working, you...
Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being...
Nathaniel Hawthorne What other dungeon is so dark...
William Hazlitt The most insignificant people are...
Arthur Helps Having once decided to achieve...
Frank Herbert How often it is that the...
Hermann Hesse To be able to throw one's...
Napoleon Hill If you do not conquer self...
Napolean Hill If you do not conquer self...
Gordon B. Hinckley Respect for self is the...
Bell Hooks It's in the act of having...
Tom Hopkins Getting in touch with your...
Thomas Hughes Blessed are they who have the...
Ted Hughes Fishing provides that connection with...
Leigh Hunt Great woman belong to history...
Douglas Hurd It was essentially for self...
Aldous Huxley There's only one corner of the...
Aldous Huxley There is only one corner of...
Aldous Huxley Bondage is the life of...
Abdullah Ibrahim When time and space and change...
Muhammad Iqbal It is the nature of the...
Muhammad Iqbal Though the terror of the sea...
William James There is but one cause of...
Karl Jaspers Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment...
Samuel Johnson To love one that is great...
Angelina Jolie I'd go from film to film...
E. Stanley Jones Some have said that the power...
June Jordan Language is political. That's why...
Sammy Davis, Jr. The ultimate mystery is one's...
Abdul Kalam Do we not realize that self...
Leon Kass Is it possible to covet a...
Arthur Keith In a tribal organization, even...
Helen Keller What a blind person needs is...
Kevin Kelly Basins of attraction, of self...
William Kennedy Without a sense of place the...
Ellen Key The emancipation of women is...
Hulagu Khan I will burn your city, your...
Soren Kierkegaard Be that self which one truly...
Galway Kinnell Never mind. The self is the...
Boris Kodjoe Secular artists see themselves with...
Vladimir Kramnik For me art and chess are...
Ray Kurzweil We appear to be programmed...
Neil LaBute My best male friend is my...
Greg Lake Philosophically, what I have learned...
Corliss Lamont True freedom is the capacity...
Henry Laurens My bravery however was the...
William Law Self is the root, the tree...
William Law What could begin to deny self...
David Herbert Lawrence I believe that a man is...
Shari Lewis Self esteem comes from doing...
Jenifer Lewis You think you can go into...
Joseph B. Lightfoot Yes, forget your weakness, whatever...
Pierre Loti I recall feeling an almost...
Courtney Love Drugs have nothing to do with...
Clare Boothe Luce A man has only one escape...
Lydia Lunch If people could understand how...
Martin Luther I am more afraid of my...
Jean-Francois Lyotard A self does not amount to...
Robert Bulwer-Lytton The easiest person to deceive...
Mary MacLane I never give my real self...
Sydney Madwed Poor is the man who does...
Ella Maillart It is always our own self...
Ella Maillart Not only does travel give us...
Mainbocher I have never known a really...
Maxwell Maltz Our self image, strongly held...
Maxwell Maltz The "self-image" is the key...
Imelda Marcos Doesn't the fight for survival...
Orison Sweet Marden The size of your accomplishments...
Orison Sweet Marden There can be no failure to...
Christopher Marlowe Hell hath no limits, nor is...
Ralph Marston Success in any endeavor depends...
Abraham Maslow Classic economic theory, based as...
Mary McCarthy I suppose everyone continues to...
Bryant H. McGill Having a sense of purpose is...
Bryant H. McGill Join me in my quest for...
Jacqueline McKenzie It's just so fragile. The...
Aimee Semple McPherson What is my task? First of...
George H. Mead The intelligence of the lower...
George H. Mead The self has the characteristic...
Golda Meir Trust yourself. Create the kind...
Mencius He who attends to his greater...
Michelangelo The promises of this world are...
Edna St. Vincent Millay We are all ruled in what...
Henry Miller The concert is a polite form...
Arthur Miller I think it's a mistake to...
John Milton Who kills a man kills a...
James Monroe The right of self defense...
Michel de Montaigne Every one rushes elsewhere and...
Toni Morrison The ability of writers to...
Toni Morrison Freeing yourself was one thing...
Emily Mortimer I think we probably will end...
Samantha Morton You've got all these books on...
Iris Murdoch Happiness is a matter of one's...
Dave Mustaine The Bible and several other...
Guru Nanak Owing to ignorance of the rope...
Simon Newcomb As years passed away I have...
Reinhold Niebuhr The mastery of nature is...
Ann Oakley If love means that one person...
Sarah Jessica Parker To be in a couple, do...
Blaise Pascal The self is hateful.
Simon Pegg I think at its best the...
William Penn In marriage do thou be wise...
Alan Perlis It goes against the grain of...
Jean Piaget The self thus becomes aware of...
Jean Piaget In other words, knowledge of...
Albert Pike The sovereignty of one's self...
Zebulon Pike A discontented young fellow, filled...
Alexander Pope True politeness consists in being...
Priscilla Presley Inner beauty should be the...
Marcel Proust The bonds that unite another...
Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry is also the physical...
Ramakrishna If you first fortify yourself...
Keanu Reeves It's the journey of self, I...
Agnes Repplier It is in his pleasure that...
Manfred von Richthofen Of course, with the increasing...
Antoine Rivarol To lose one's self in reverie...
Gene Robinson If indeed this is the work...
Francois de La Rochefoucauld Jealousy springs more from love...
Francois de La Rochefoucauld It takes nearly as much...
Francois de La Rochefoucauld The sure way to be cheated...
Rebecca Romijn Sexy at the millennium means...
Eleanor Roosevelt Friendship with ones self is...
Josiah Royce The other aspect of idealism...
Jimmy Rushing This business switching styles can't...
Winona Ryder I think I'm learning to be...
Katey Sagal I'm very comfortable as a...
May Sarton We have to dare to be...
May Sarton Loneliness is the poverty of...
Fred Savage I think it is important to...
Frank Serpico The fight for justice against...
William Shakespeare This above all; to thine own...
William Shakespeare To thine own self be true...
William Shakespeare Absence from those we love is...
George Bernard Shaw Capitalism has destroyed our belief...
Chiang Kai-shek Prayer is more than meditation...
Hu Shih On the basis of biological...
Helen Slater With acting I am being led...
Samuel Smiles The duty of helping one's self...
Logan P. Smith People before the public live...
Lisa Snowdon I use fake tan myself with...
Ralph W. Sockman Love is the outreach of self...
Ralph W. Sockman True humility is intelligent self...
Al Spalding Baseball gives a growing boy...
Baruch Spinoza The greatest pride, or the...
Charles Spurgeon Humility is to make a right...
Madame de Stael Prayer is more than meditation...
Robert Sternberg But what many psychologists have...
Alfred Stieglitz The goal of art was the...
Max Stirner Whoever will be free must make...
John Strachan When we contemplate the heroes...
Igor Stravinsky The more constraints one imposes...
Meryl Streep I think your self emerges more...
Erich von Stroheim And yet because of my attempt...
Janet Suzman Jews have had to carry around...
Kristy Swanson I would rather take the role...
Max von Sydow The most difficult part of...
Thomas Szasz People often say that this or...
Thomas Szasz It is easier to do one's...
Rabindranath Tagore The burden of the self is...
Toru Takemitsu Although I am basically self...
Ali ibn Abi Talib He who busies himself with...
Johannes Tauler Like blind hens, we are...
Henry Taylor He who gives what he would...
Julie Taymor I'm not going to spend two...
Charlene Tilton You have to have a strong...
Lionel Trilling The function of literature, through...
Robin Tunney I'm a firm believer that...
Anne Tyler It seems to me that since...
Sun Tzu Know thy self, know thy enemy...
Mark Udall President Ford was a devoted...
John Updike The essential self is innocent...
Jhonen Vasquez I think there is something a...
Lindsay Wagner There is only one issue: man's...
Denis Waitley Relentless, repetitive self talk is...
Ralph Thomas Walker When I severe my connections...
Irving Wallace To be one's self, and unafraid...
Zerelda G. Wallace The highest form of development...
Jeannette Walls I never had any question that...
Barbara Walters Wait for those unguarded moments...
Vera Wang I adore the challenge of...
Alan Watts So then, the relationship of...
Hugo Weaving I think I'm much less self...
Alfred North Whitehead Art attracts us only by what...
Richard Wilbur It is true that the poet...
Armstrong Williams Sports nurtures dreams of achieving...
Marianne Williamson The goal of spiritual practice...
Flip Wilson My show is my statement. What...
Jeanette Winterson Your weak point is the open...
Jeanette Winterson Many people feel their outer...
Elijah Wood There is nothing noble in...
Douglas Wood I became much happier when I...
Ron Wood My real self is probably more...
James Woods Sometimes the way you respond...
Malcolm X I don't even call it violence...
Donnie Yen Martial art is a form of...
Vash Young There is no finer sensations...
Peter Nivio Zarlenga To take refuge with an...


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