When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
God is the only one who knows how many children we should have, and we should be ready to accept them. One… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
One is called a criminal for being different, and malicious for observing other people with too much clarity and penetration. But what… — Andre Suares Copy Share Image
What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same… — Ann Bridge 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
To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to… — Xavier Forneret Copy Share Image
Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
Most people believe that the Christian commandments, e.g. to love one's neighbor as oneself, are intentionally a little too severe - like… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Spending on oneself does not boost wellbeing. However, spending money on others does -- and it appears to be as important to… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should… — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
Always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
One struggles always with these norms. So one doesn't construct oneself freely without respect to norm but one works with one's historical… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both… — David Rakoff 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
Speaking as a phenomenologist, it seems to me that a considerable portion of mind wandering actually is "mental avoidance behaviour", an attempt… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules; very simple rules that apply to all writing in a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
