#oneself

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#deeper meaning #does #enough #got #i

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#given #her #hero #his #life

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#fraction #hardly #life #little #little time

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#develop #fractured #fragile #funny #kid

I think poetry is best read to oneself. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#i #i think #oneself #poetry #read

I had a cup of tea, thought about my day and mostly about the horse whom, though I'd only known him a short time, I called my friend. I have few friends and am glad to have a horse for a friend. After the meal I smoked a cigarette and mused on the luxury it would be to go out, instead of talking to myself and boring myself to death with the same endless stories I'm forever telling myself. I am a very boring person, despite my enormous intelligence and distinguished appearance, and nobody knows this better than I. I've often told myself that if only I were given the opportunity, I'd perhaps become the centre of intellectual society. But by dint of talking to myself so much, I tend to repeat the same things all the time. But what can you expect? I'm a recluse. ↗

— Leonora Carrington

#recluses #solitude #talking-to-oneself #death

I'm mine. Not anyone else's. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#oneself #possession #love

Accepting the thought, emotion or sensation at face value is an act that is both loving and liberating. ↗

— Heidi DuPree

#love

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#religion #understanding-oneself-and-others #religion

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#bear #done #else #even #imperfection