There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or… — Dada Vaswani Copy Share Image
Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form… — Klaus Mann 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
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration,… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to… — Nathan Huggins Copy Share Image
Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself… — Sudhir Kakar Copy Share Image
Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to… — Erich Fromm 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
One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us,… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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