Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.
Self improvement can be very challenging, but where there's a will, there's a way. Make your own way!
Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.
I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.
The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them.
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
...whatever happens I'll not be afraid again; for, when you've once pushed through the place of torment to the peace beyond, you know that you can do it again. You know there's a strength somewhere that you can call upon. You've confidence.
...leaning down for a quick peck on Jeff's lips, and then he starts squirming and rearranging and manhandling until somehow they end up with Dan in the middle, Jeff stretched out on his left side, Evan on his right. Dan isn't really sure how that hap...
But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.
One concrete way in which we all landscape our sanity is by having our experience of reality confirmed by others. When our experience of reality is disconfirmed by others, our confidence in our own sanity can be undermined. (page 125, Chapter 9, Grae...
Don’t you want to get well? Come on, Portia, this won’t be forever, mate: Dad’s confident, everyone’s behind you. Remember,’ I gave her an encouraging punch on the arm, ‘you’ll never walk alone, even if you are an Evertonian.’ She bur...
They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years at university just so that they could end up as overqualified, stay-at-home playthings and sit here exchang...
Grant glanced down at his khaki jacket. Since he’d slipped on the US Navy uniform in Agent Bounter’s office, he’d felt a confident swagger possess him. His spine lengthened, and his shoulders retracted. He should’ve been wearing this every da...
Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your closest confidant, whispering the secrets of the universe into your ear; the next, she is your vilest oppressor—and once her ears close...
