To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection. — Mariah Nelson Copy Share Image
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. — Ouida Copy Share Image
When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
“I dreamed of myself in a dream, and told the dream, which was mine, as if it were another person's of whom… — Stopford Brooke Copy Share Image
We-each of us-are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery?… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I would suggest two approaches to begin the leadership journey in earnest. First would be to ask oneself, in every interaction with… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to… — African Spir Copy Share Image
He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
