Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
“Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
While holding positive thoughts and emotions is advantageous, positive thinking itself is not "Hallmark Card thinking." It's really an ongoing awareness that… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of… — Midori Goto Copy Share Image
Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
. . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling… — Mantak Chia Copy Share Image
All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me...… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and… — Ralph Wiley 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
People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and… — Gunter Brus 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
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery… — Michaela Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“I am not Weird, Neither am I anti-social, there are just times in my life when the only company I cherish is;… — Kelly Iyogun Copy Share Image
No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
