The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means… — Innocent of Alaska Copy Share Image
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?" — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration,… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Not to identify oneself with something, or to associate things with the 'me,' and to see that the idea that there is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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