Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing… — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It is a very good exercise, at least from a historian's point of view, to imagine oneself a devout pagan while reading… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor,… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Death is dreadfully personal, terribly important to oneself, and so unimportant to the rest of the world. — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You, of all people, should know that what you wear is ninety percent of what people perceive about you." He kissed her… — Megan Frampton Copy Share Image
while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. — Edith Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour,… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
