Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world… Any writer who lacks this… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to… — Banana Yoshimoto 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
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 is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
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
“You, of all people, should know that what you wear is ninety percent of what people perceive about you." He kissed her… — Megan Frampton Copy Share Image
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves,… — W. H. Murray Copy Share Image
How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not… — James Forrestal Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
