Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Wilber

When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your very own limitless Being, waving back at you?

Ken Wilber

Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

Katherine Jenkins

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

Kate Chopin

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Julia Ward Howe

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

Julia Ward Howe

Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.

Julian Baggini

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.

Julian Assange

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each other privately.

Julian Barnes

Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to turn bad love – selfish, shitty love – into good love poetry. Prose writers lack this power of admirable, dishonest transformation. We can only turn bad love into prose about bad love. So we are envious (and slightly distrustful) when poets talk to us of love.

Julian Barnes

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

Ken Kesey

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

Katori Hall

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Katie Couric

I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.

Krista Allen

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

Kris Carr

Honestly, self-care is not fluffy - it's something we should take seriously.

Kris Carr

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

Kristen Bell

I'm not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.

Kristen Bell

I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed...I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.

Kirstie Alley

I am a little klutzy and self-deprecating. I fit in with the rest of the losers.

Kevin Powell

Too many people are going for self and not trying to help their communities.

Kerry Bishe

I think its really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so its good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?

Michael Hutchence

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

Michael Irvin

Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

Michael Horton

A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident and relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion and morality whenever it seems convenient

Michael Ian Black

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.

Ravi Zacharias

You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.

Ray Bradbury

I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know. I only know there has been your mind here and my mind here, and the afternoons have been like none I can remember.

Randy Pausch

The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective.

Randy Pausch

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

Randy Pausch

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give in when they’ve spent years taking out. No doesn’t magically become a Yes.