Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing. — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Even with limited intelligence, knowing oneself is not as difficult as some say, but to act according to what one has realized… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Studying the Buddha way is studying oneself. Studying oneself is forgetting oneself. Forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. Being enlightened… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the… — Ottmar Edenhofer Copy Share Image
I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength, exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character… — Plato Copy Share Image
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom,… — Henning von Tresckow Copy Share Image
One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself. — James Franco Copy Share Image
I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself. — Barry Webster Copy Share Image
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
“When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When you are in darkness, you lose your own shadow… — Zain Baloch Copy Share Image
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
One should not google oneself. My mother lets me know when I'm being followed by paparazzi. — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Let the stories of life be inexplicable Let the world interpret them Let's see who deciphers Let's see who sheds light on… — Jannat Amjad Copy Share Image
I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose. — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
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