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
This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute… — Ottmar Edenhofer Copy Share Image
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link. — Eduardo Chillida Copy Share Image
It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within. — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Being alone by oneself is much better than being alone with another. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde 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
She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
All coming to Jesus has the feeling of homecoming upon it. All going away from Him has the sense of estrangement upon… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
