The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,'… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
The essence of oneself and the essence of the world: these two are one. [ The aim is not to see, but… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change… — Katharine Jefferts Schori Copy Share Image
One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
