--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere, it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings. A… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There is a greater gift than the trust of others. That is to trust in oneself. Some might call it confidence, others… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
The third level of wanting is "I commit to being rich." The definition of the word commit is to "devote oneself unreservedly."… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
