Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. — Ethel Percy Andrus Copy Share Image
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection. — Mariah Nelson Copy Share Image
One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill… — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides… — Azar Nafisi 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
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
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
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Some important ideas from the book of early Christians which is called Philokalia: From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki The acme… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one… — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
Until one acknowledges the genius within oneself, one will have great difficulty recognizing it in others. — David R. Hawkins Copy Share Image
to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose… — Margaret Campbell Barnes Copy Share Image
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state… — Nathalie Sarraute 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
To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to… — Francis Fukuyama 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
