#oneself

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. ↗

— Konrad Adenauer

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One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#does #love #oneself #opening #risk

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be. ↗

— George P. Baker

#drama #even #never #oneself #read

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

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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#helpless #make #misunderstanding #oneself #others

you must find yourself before you can know where you belong, yet to find yourself first you must know who you are. However, you will never really know who you are if you are always allowing other people to define who you should be, so be yourself and if you are still unsure of who you are then reinvent yourself. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#finding-oneself #life #life

The things about others that irritate, annoy, and unsettle us are the very things we have not accepted and embraced about ourselves ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#acceptance-of-others #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods