One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false. — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community. — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Revolution is only truly revolution if it is a continuous struggle-not just an external struggle against an enemy, but an inner struggle,… — Sukarno Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
