Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself. — Anthony de Mello 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
I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so… — John Green Copy Share Image
Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long. — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change… — Katharine Jefferts Schori Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being… — Nathan Huggins Copy Share Image
life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the… — Democritus Copy Share Image
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,'… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ... — Emilie du Chatelet Copy Share Image
The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world. — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror. — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
