It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. — Mencius Copy Share Image
... one could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I… — Rachelle Lefevre Copy Share Image
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos,… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We need to ask God for forgiveness and do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused. Repentance… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
“Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to… — Elizabeth Day Copy Share Image
The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have… — George Hackenschmidt Copy Share Image
One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. — James Wyatt Copy Share Image
