Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them.… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph. — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery?… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me...… — Carl Jung 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
An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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