. . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself. — Alan Sugar Copy Share Image
You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Some people think that in order to lead a morally decent life one may sometimes have to forego the possibility of having… — Samuel Scheffler Copy Share Image
The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one… — Nilakanta Sri Ram Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings… — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
Because the true perfection of a practical occupation consists not only in knowing the actual performance of the occupation but also in… — Gersonides Copy Share Image
Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself. — Patrick McGoohan Copy Share Image
Once the ego is not there, there is no expectation, frustration, no desire, no despair. Suddenly one finds oneself falling into a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
