Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. There is enough… — Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The Christian Sunday should be a festival, gathering up all the life of the week and offering it to God in worship… — Olive Wyon Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the Christian faith, man comes in the profoundest sense to himself not through what he does… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any… — Jacqueline Auriol Copy Share Image
For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one… — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
