Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person. — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The reflective person opens up her inner world and embarks on the greatest adventure that life has to offer – getting to… — Kristine Carlson Copy Share Image
Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision… — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble… — Plato Copy Share Image
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
It's the beginning of opening to love. Even if there's not much feeling of compassion toward oneself, just say, "It's okay, sweetheart,"… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not ("ne saurait", Fr.)… — African Spir Copy Share Image
We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse… — Elaine Scarry 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
If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable. — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It is well to remember that reading books about the Bible is a very different thing to searching the Word for oneself. — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the… — Paloma Picasso Copy Share Image
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda — Ouida Copy Share Image
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Those who truly love and respect you will respect your boundaries. I think freeing oneself from codependency and fear is vital for… — Maria Canals Barrera Copy Share Image
One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
