We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings… — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness… — Dayananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
“Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to… — Elizabeth Day Copy Share Image
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment… — Francois Magendie Copy Share Image
The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
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
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
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
I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them,… — Nicole Krauss 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
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We need to ask God for forgiveness and do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused. Repentance… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our… — Julian Baggini 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
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of… — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
