I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows. — Olga Korbut Copy Share Image
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to… — African Spir Copy Share Image
To bring oneself to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously… — Thomas Buckner Copy Share Image
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to… — David Rockefeller 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
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can… — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless.… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
