To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link. — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
One may have a right to be unconventional and even eccentric, so long as one is fully competent and a decent person;… — Robert Audi Copy Share Image
Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
The Deceiver can magnify a little sin for the purpose of causing one to worry, torture, and kill oneself with it. This… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds… — Ethel Percy Andrus Copy Share Image
Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. — William Empson Copy Share Image
Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others. — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle — Yuu Watase Copy Share Image
Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ethan knows more about himself than he ever wanted to know, and I know less than I should.” — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try… — Anna Freud Copy Share Image
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
