To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
My idea of elegance – and this refers to women as well as men – is that someone is elegant when he… — Stefano Pilati Copy Share Image
The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but… — Florence Bascom Copy Share Image
To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle — Yuu Watase Copy Share Image
The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It's the beginning of opening to love. Even if there's not much feeling of compassion toward oneself, just say, "It's okay, sweetheart,"… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
one life would not suffice, mine especially. To touch everything and leave nothing after oneself! Ah! my God! I hope better than… — Marie Bashkirtseff Copy Share Image
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
