Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when… — African Spir Copy Share Image
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it. — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror. — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
