#oneself

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#hated #loved #make #more #oneself

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

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#always #any #good #good advice #i

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#feels #oneself #shadow #tolstoy #whether

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. ↗

— Debra Winger

#age #also #beyond #care #comment

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#forgive #forgiven #oneself #only #ourselves

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#energy #forward #hope #illuminating #into

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

— Jean Anouilh

#gift #love #love is #oneself

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#different #different thing #make #object #oneself

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#aware #be happy #become #fright #happy