#oneself

No longer will I doubt my abilities...I will give myself a chance. ↗

— Stephanie Lahart

#courage-to-be-oneself #inspirational #motivation #courage

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#gratitude #happiness #inspirational #knowing-oneself #life

People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#accepting #gossip #liberation #life

... to be in any sort of relationship where you do not express yourself, simply to keep the peace, is a relationship ruled by one person and will never be balanced or healthy. ↗

— Bronnie Ware

#healthy-relationships #relationship #life

He used to annoy me with sophistry that we all chose our destiny. Then one day I told him that that’s great when fate offers you a nice set of destinies to choose from, but when you find yourself choosing between risking being raped, tortured and killed, or moving to another country to live like an alien without tongue, money or understanding, you are buggered either way. And that’s not even to mention how easily he could navigate through the mine filed of his mistakes... ↗

— Dunya Look

#truth-of-life #understanding-oneself-and-others #inspirational

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. ↗

— Gamaliel Bailey

#first #frauds #oneself #worst

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#boring #considered #everything #less #oneself

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#behind #believe #culture #exist #i

Freeing oneself from words is liberation. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#liberation #oneself #words

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#food #ice #ice cream #like #oneself