“In life, nothing will increase your self-esteem as much as make it on your own.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Nella vita, nulla aumenterà la vostra autostima tanto quanto farcela da soli.
Source: prevale.net
“In life, nothing will increase your self-esteem as much as make it on your own.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Nella vita, nulla aumenterà la vostra autostima tanto quanto farcela da soli.
Source: prevale.net
“Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
1950s, Education and the Significance of Life (1953)
“Poverty is the self's greed and increased despair.”
Ali al-Hadi (829–868) imam
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 368.
General
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in West Calder, Scotland (27 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), p. 116.
1870s
Context: My fourth principle is—that you should avoid needless and entangling engagements. You may boast about them, you may brag about them, you may say you are procuring consideration of the country. You may say that an Englishman may now hold up his head among the nations. But what does all this come to, gentlemen? It comes to this, that you are increasing your engagements without increasing your strength; and if you increase your engagements without increasing strength, you diminish strength, you abolish strength; you really reduce the empire and do not increase it. You render it less capable of performing its duties; you render it an inheritance less precious to hand on to future generations.
Gillian Anderson (1968) American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer
Therefore I have signed you up to build homes for the homeless during your entire summer vacation. Your Christmas will be spent serving food at a battered women’s shelter and Easter is designated to reading stories to children in the pediatric cancer ward. Four months out of 16years dedicated to human beings other than yourself, you have gotten off easy. Oh and honey expand your horizons; your world is a bigger oyster than your low self-esteem wants you to believe. Love yourself; think of others and be grateful. I love you, I believe in you, and I look forward to respecting you.<br><br>Me. You. Us<br><br>P.S. Follow your dreams, not your boyfriends. <br class="br">Anderson's letter to her teenage self — from Dear Me: More Letters To My Sixteen-Year-Old Self http://www.dearme.org/excerpt/GA/?iframe=true&width=750&height=100%/, edited by Joseph Galliano. (June 19, 2011) <br class="br">2010s
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977) Indian guru
Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 1 - Los Angeles, May 3, 1970. Vanipedia http://vaniquotes.org/wiki/If_you_want_to_love_God,_there_is_nothing_throughout_the_whole_world_which_can_check_you._Simply_you_have_to_develop_your_eagerness:_%22Krsna,_I_want_You.%22_That%27s_all._Then_there_is_no_question_of_checking <br class="br">Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: Loving God
Sarmad Kashani (1590–1661) Persian mystic, poet and saint
Source: Sarmad, Martyr to Love Divine, p. 241 (2005)
Colin Wilson (1931–2013) author
Source: The Strength To Dream (1961), p. 197
Context: No artist can develop without increasing his self-knowledge; but self-knowledge supposes a certain preoccupation with the meaning of human life and the destiny of man. A definite set of beliefs — Methodist Christianity, for example — may only be a hindrance to development; but it is not more so than Beckett's refusal to think at all. Shaw says somewhere that all intelligent men must be preoccupied with either religion, politics, or sex. (He seems to attribute T. E. Lawrence's tragedy to his refusal to come to grips with any of them.) It is hard to see how an artist could hope to achieve any degree of self-knowledge without being deeply concerned with at least one of the three.