Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good. — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing. — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer Copy Share Image
Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what… — Barbara Pym 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
My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules; very simple rules that apply to all writing in a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Speaking as a phenomenologist, it seems to me that a considerable portion of mind wandering actually is "mental avoidance behaviour", an attempt… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
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
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
I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every day without fail one should consider himself as dead. There is a saying of the elders that goes, 'Step from under… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a… — Alain de Botton 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
Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet… — Rajneesh 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
Men and women are so alike that a woman must make an intellectual effort to differentiate herself. As soon as one understands… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
