One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days. — Charles Trenet Copy Share Image
Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I realized that to become a saint one must suffer a great deal, always seek what is best, and forget oneself. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules; very simple rules that apply to all writing in a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character… — Plato Copy Share Image
Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic. — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
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