#oneself

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#gift #love #love is #oneself

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find. ↗

— Andre Breton

#find #finds #hides #less #more

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#doing #exactly #lay #oneself #places

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#class #culture #how #matter #mature

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#flock #immaculate #member #must #oneself

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#does #eye #human #meet #oneself

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#born #free #interesting #learn #limits

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life. ↗

— Edwin Markham

#life #oneself #only #oppressed #side

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#attend #busy #difficult #dignity #futile

It's dangerous to assert oneself. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#dangerous #oneself