Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
Without the ambition to raise oneself to life's challenges, growth and innovation would never happen.
In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else
Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.
One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change.
He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.
Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
I don't like the idea of being connected to the world all the time. One should have space and time for oneself.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.
Many times, people who are self-involved or bullies, it stems from a place of hurt and insecurity within oneself.
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.
How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!
It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.
If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.
Be a light unto oneself
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
The will to be oneself is heroism
As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself.