Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible. — Socrates Copy Share Image
By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
God is the only one who knows how many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them. One… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what… — Andre Suares Copy Share Image
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“You, of all people, should know that what you wear is ninety percent of what people perceive about you." He kissed her… — Megan Frampton Copy Share Image
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this:… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . . — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
