To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others. — David R. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community. — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection. — Mariah Nelson Copy Share Image
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one… — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery?… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living - to… — Chuck Feeney Copy Share Image
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death,… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself. — Bibhu Mohapatra Copy Share Image
