#oneself

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. ↗

— David Rockefeller

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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

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Testing oneself is best when done alone. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. ↗

— Michelangelo

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Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance. ↗

— Tara Brach

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I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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