#oneself

He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people. ↗

— Frank Beddor

#talking-to-oneself #humor

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

— Eric Hoffer

#giving #having #mother #oneself #reckless

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

#energy #forward #hope #illuminating #into

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

— Jean Anouilh

#gift #love #love is #oneself

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

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#dream #either #excellence #happiness #into

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

— Simone de Beauvoir

#different #different thing #make #object #oneself

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. ↗

— Max Born

#evil #oneself #only #possession #root

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#does #link #merely #new #oneself

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#golden rule #image #incomplete #leave #oneself

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. ↗

— Robert Collier

#believe #comes #dominating #false #mind