Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. — Henri Matisse 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've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose. — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions.… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself… — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When in darkness, you lose your own shadow too” — Zain Baloch Copy Share Image
The outflow that comes from giving of oneself opens the door to spiritual unfoldment while the attitude of taking locks it. — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one… — Plato Copy Share Image
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to… — Nathan Huggins Copy Share Image
Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us… — Pierre Louis Maupertuis Copy Share Image
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image