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Oneself Quotes by Patricia Hampl
- Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you…
- Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.
- Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.
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- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be… — David Bailey
- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. — James A. Baldwin
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil
- Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
- An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
- 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