Quotes of: Authentic-self Keyword

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

The News: A User's Manual

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

Nightmarish Sacrifice

My father said it was a delightfully odd - and dangerously self-destructive - quirk of humans that we were far more interested in pointless trivia then in genuine news stories.

Lost in a Good Book

We help our clients discover and correct the underlying conditions that are causing them to self-medicate, to seek relief in substances and addictive behavior.

The Laws of Love: Creating the Relationship of Your Dreams

The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Good leaders know who they are—their strengths, weaknesses, passions, talents, and values. And, developing leaders always starts with self-awareness.

Leading With Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton

A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.

Liver: A Fictional Organ With a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes

The desire to be loved, to feel loved, is behind every diet, pill, surgery, and lie. It is behind each act of violence and every affair as well as each organized religion and every method of self-help.

The Love Mindset

In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.

The Library at Night

The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush...

Life of Pi

i have to love myself more than i love him, in order to leave him.

The Last Cheater's Waltz Trusting Dog Trusting Self

Binoculars see from far when near the eyes. Far from self, near the heart, in love. (Les jumelles voient de loin quand près des yeux. - Loin de soi, près du coeur ; amoureux.)

Le Sablier

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Lady Audley's Secret

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.

Leading Valiantly in Healthcare: Four Steps to Sustainable Success

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I’d look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.

Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction

... I thought with all this freedom and self-discovery and expression of our love stuff that we could finally stop with the whole Zen master wisdom and practical advice crap.

Last Sacrifice

As a being and life form, all of mankind must seek the absolute sunshine of being. To do otherwise is to deny the essence of life; which is growth in body mind and soul. These in turn reflects Self love.

The Law of the Universe

The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim.

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

If you don’t know your maker, you may travel miles to find your true self to no avail. Your maker knows you; to know yourself, know your maker!

Leaders' Watchwords

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way