It is one thing to read about the world, but quite another to see and hear for oneself. — Mary Travers 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
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in… — Chuck Knox Copy Share Image
What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I've done well in all. It's important to keep doing… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others.… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself. I particularly love… — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Comme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“It's easy to do what is not good And things that harm oneself. It's very difficult to do Things beneficial and good.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
