... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass?… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Battles within, akin to bodybuilding, are to be done by oneself.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be… — Christopher Jones 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
To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos,… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The master is within; meditation is meant to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside. If he is a stranger… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
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