As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom,… — Henning von Tresckow Copy Share Image
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
To take no account of oneself, but always to think well and highly of others is the highest wisdom and perfection. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The Voice of Heaven is a still small voice. The voice of peace in the home is a quiet voice. There is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything?… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back… — Laurie Beth Jones Copy Share Image
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to… — Elizabeth Day Copy Share Image