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
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or -… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself,… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the… — Ottmar Edenhofer Copy Share Image
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent, — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of… — Charles Madigan Copy Share Image
“When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When you are in darkness, you lose your own shadow… — Zain Baloch Copy Share Image
