To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself... — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent. — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
“When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don't know; When you are in darkness, you lose your own shadow… — Zain Baloch Copy Share Image
Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing. — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The real thinkers of the world aren't the best dressed. Staying on top of the latest fashions, accessorizing, and presenting oneself is… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents;… — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy 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
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 easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing… — Ibn Khaldun 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
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
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
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
Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good. — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
