The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions. — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were… — Quentin Bell Copy Share Image
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself. — Primo Levi 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
One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi. — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be… — Christopher Jones Copy Share Image
Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality)… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of… — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
This question of love begins and ends with the willingness to be welcoming to one's own experience as a loving action towards… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute… — Ottmar Edenhofer Copy Share Image
Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Being alone by oneself is much better than being alone with another. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image