#oneself

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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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

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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. ↗

— Ethel Percy Andrus

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

— Jean Anouilh

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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Walter Benjamin

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