This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
If you aren’t nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?
Why would you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
Embrace, nurture, love and celebrate the child in self and others; because being child is being a future.
I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
it is shame to be an impostor....it only means u gave up!....it is impossible to be perfect....but it is possible to believe in your self....
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
Hate not a man for his tardiness for the only thing that is on time is; time it self.
Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest.
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.
I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
Having low self-esteem and a shield of lard are not guarantees of safety. Having a warrior spirit, high self worth (most people are assaulted by someone they know, so if you think you're only worthy of hanging out with controlling low-life's, that's ...
There is no 'eugenics' in Nietzsche - despite occasional references to 'breeding'- at least no more than is implicit in the recommendation to choose a partner under decent lightning conditions and with one's self-respect intact. Everything else falls...
Ogni mediazione proietta un suo miraggio; i miraggi si susseguono come altrettante "verità" che subentrino alle verità anteriori come una vera e propria uccisione del ricordo vivente e si proteggano dalle verità future con una censura implacabile ...
The word "travel" comes from the Old French word "travail" (or "travailler"), which means "to work, to labor; a suffering or painful effort, an arduous journey, a tormenting experience." ("Travel," thus, is "a painful and laborious journey"). Whereas...
People rely on intelligence to solve problems, and they are naturally baffled when comprehension proves impotent to effect emotional change. To the neocortical brain, rich in the power of abstractions, understanding makes all the difference, but it d...
Obituaries are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. I defy you to find a single obituary that begins, "Jane Doe won the Nobel Prize in large part because she was ad...
