Alain de Botton Quotes, Home Quotes, Self Quotes

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Home Quotes , Self Quotes

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Cheer Quotes , Self Quotes

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Self Quotes , Twins Quotes

I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Self Quotes , Gas Stations Quotes

I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Believe Quotes , Self Quotes

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Carpe Diem Quotes , Self Quotes

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Self Quotes

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Self Quotes , Fleeting Quotes

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Determination Quotes , Self Quotes

Self praise is no praise at all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Self Quotes , Vanity Quotes

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Self Quotes , Hypocrisy Quotes

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Self Quotes , People Quotes

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Buddhism Quotes , Self Quotes

To be able to have that self-respect for yourself and just that feeling of, OK, I did what I could, just stay true to yourself.If you feel that this is something that's valid and you should go out there and win, then push through it no matter what the outcome is. Just know that nine times out of 10 that no matter whether you were right or you were wrong, the NFL is a business.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrian Peterson Quotes , Winning Quotes , Self Quotes

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Self Quotes

When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Heart Quotes , Self Quotes

Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Rufus Quotes , Moving Quotes , Self Quotes

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Men Quotes , Self Quotes

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Love Quotes , Self Quotes