Quote by Virginia Woolf

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

— Virginia Woolf

“It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself”

— Lou Andeas-Salome

“To be free to roam our own consciousness and be responsible for ourselves, a letting go process is required. We have to let go…

— David W Earle

“Whatever one can do by oneself, one must do it — for oneself.”

— Maya Realm

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in…

— Ivan Turgenev

“Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken…

— Paul Isaacs

“Redefining oneself is something we all have to do ... The only person who could ever set bounds on you should be yourself.”

— Genevieve Cogman

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no…

— William Ellery Channing

“Those who knows oneself has the privilege to restrain oneself. No longer easily depending on others.”

— Minoru Kawakami

“Take for yourself what you can, and don't be ruled by others; to belong to oneself - the whole savour of life lies in…

— Ivan Turgenev

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

— Joseph Conrad

“This willful, compulsive, moralistic approach to man’s transformation always obstructs it—for it still implies that very illusion of self-mastery which stands in the way.…

— Alan W. Watts