#oneself

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#another #know #oneself #person #study

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

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It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience. ↗

— Berthe Morisot

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A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

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There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. ↗

— Guy Debord

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Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. ↗

— Morarji Desai

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To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. ↗