“For the wishes of one’s old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
We need to ask God for forgiveness and do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused. Repentance… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what… — Arthur Trudeau Copy Share Image
People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
There's something very noble about bringing home a paycheck to provide for oneself and one's family. However, there's so much more to… — David Kim Copy Share Image
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm. — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
