#oneself

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#boring #considered #despair #everything #inclination

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#great man #important #important thing #man #oneself

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#begets #creates #energy #life #oneself

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#being #bore #everyone #oneself #someone

I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#love-yourself #relationships #self-esteem #beauty

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 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

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people. ↗

— Basil Rathbone

#critical #grows #less #more #older

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. ↗

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

#ability #joke #oneself #sense #sense of humor