If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One must not try to trick misfortune,but resign oneself to it with good grace. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form… — Klaus Mann Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings… — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent… — 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
The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is,… — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength, exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
