The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject… — Cole Weston Copy Share Image
...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to that audience because, unless they watch… — Kate O'Mara Copy Share Image
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
How odd, to suddenly glimpse a facet of me I didn't know existed. I guess it really isn't all that unusual to… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
