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
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
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
“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
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
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
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why would one's identity be a matter of feelings? I think that that's a misuse of terms, philosophically. Identity is mind independent.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Whoever relies on the Tao in governing men doesn't try to force issues or defeat enemies by force of arms. For every… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress. Every second of every minute of every hour, the… — Matthew Syed Copy Share Image
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Revolution is only truly revolution if it is a continuous struggle-not just an external struggle against an enemy, but an inner struggle,… — Sukarno 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
