If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people. — Marcel Proust 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
May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to… — Ashoka Copy Share Image
To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred… the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a… — Archie Shepp 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
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 writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly."… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Pray Meditate Be aware.Stay awake Bow Practise yoga Feel Chant and sing Breathe and smile Relax.Enjoy.Laugh.Play Create.Envision Let Go/Forgive.Accept Walk.Exercise.Move Work.Serve.Contribute Listen/Learn.Enquire… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.),… — African Spir Copy Share Image
With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Transformation always and necessarily calls for a transformation of oneself and one's environment. But I don't see that happening. People are stuck… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ...… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral,… — R. D. Laing 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
The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or -… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember?… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
In my career I defined myself by my music, and the danger is that one defines oneself based on popularity. As you… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be… — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image
Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
