When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the… — Patricia Hampl 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
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The will, the will not ever to die, the refusal to resign oneself to death, ceaselessly builds the house of life while… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
