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Tag Name "Oneself" (1135)

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All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.
W. H. Auden
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The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
W. H. Auden
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
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When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
Anais Nin
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First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.
P. D. James
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
Walter Benjamin
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Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
Walter Bonatti
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PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
Ambrose Bierce
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There are things one must do for oneself.
Robert Mugabe
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If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.
Amartya Sen
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The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of oneself in repose. An unguarded moment, stripped of artifice, when one forgets to fool even oneself.
Kate Morton
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Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.
Wayne Dyer
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Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.
Wes Fesler
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To hate is to deprive oneself of energy better spent on worthwhile endeavors.
Wes Fesler
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances that was and is our common purpose.
Madeleine Albright
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
Henry Ward Beecher
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To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.
Alfred Kazin
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All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.
Velupillai Prabhakaran
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One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.
Barbara Hambly
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A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.
Alfred Austin
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It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
Alfred Adler
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Life must always go on and Yoga is not about an escape from life. Yoga's about a way of dealing with life more effectively to be able to involve oneself with one's family, one's friends, one's social commitments, one's job and yet at the same time maintain one's centre.
Paul Harvey
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Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.
Alexis Carrel
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