#oneself

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

— Oscar Wilde

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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

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#difficult #nothing #oneself

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#death #fear #freeing #important #non-denominational

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

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#alone #being #boil #coffee #does

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#distance #i #i think #important #oneself

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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