What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them. — Barbara Woodhouse Copy Share Image
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to… — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can… — Daisaku Ikeda 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
The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice… — Robert Aumann Copy Share Image
The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
All coming to Jesus has the feeling of homecoming upon it. All going away from Him has the sense of estrangement upon… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
As to how I would guide someone who is confused about the idea of God, I would suggest that he or she… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too. — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death. — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and… — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It's important to relax and not put too much pressure on oneself, players must be patient when striving to improve. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself. — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
