A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist. — Alice Tisdale Hobart Copy Share Image
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others. — Socrates Copy Share Image
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless.… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger,… — Dalai Lama 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
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
One side of service is serving, but the other side is creating the space in oneself where the possibilities of giving one's… — Rafe Martin Copy Share Image
There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others. — Jean Decety Copy Share Image
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
