It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Dialogue is the fundamental unfolding of a gift of oneself to another. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem.… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone. — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it. — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people… — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run… — Nyogen Senzaki Copy Share Image
And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure… — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit,… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed,… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
