Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each… — Seneca the Younger 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
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and… — Thomas Metzinger 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
When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself- to serve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
When we care for others our own strength to live increases. When we help people expand their state of life, our lives… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable. — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one is true to oneself, when one is authentic, one becomes true to the evolutionary thrust for self-optimization that exists within… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
