Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... one could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own.… — Rodney Collin Copy Share Image
We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in… — Domenico Dolce Copy Share Image
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them. — Barbara Woodhouse Copy Share Image
One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. — Joan Didion 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
living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so… — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image