Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Empowerment is constantly challenging oneself with something difficult that tests his power of nerve, knack, skill, aptitude, attitude and wisdom to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality)… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
In a time when everybody is talking about finding oneself, how do you find yourself? I wanted to do it as literally… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself. — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
