#oneself

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. ↗

— Albert Camus

#contrary #die #impossible #love #oneself

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplative #less #life #live #miserable

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. ↗

— Iris Chang

#being #being honest #daily #daily life #honest

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#gets #more #older #oneself #resemble

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death #does #even #everything #express

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. ↗

— Criss Jami

#beauty #confusion #depression #discern #discernment

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#beautifully #because #expressed #find #i

You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #life-and-living #living-life-to-the-fullest #loving-life

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#anything #avidity #earth #ecstasy #enthusiasm

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. ↗

— Simone Weil

#hero #heroine #must #oneself #order