#oneself

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made. ↗

— Siegfried Lenz

#balance #comes #decades #embarrassment #into

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#cause #idea #oneself #pleasure

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#derive #fog #good #happiness #illuminating

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#buddhist #close #essential #essential thing #frame

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

#burden #oneself #others #prison #questions

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

#constantly #day #dies #every #evil

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#oneself #overwhelmed #sadness

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people. ↗

— Basil Rathbone

#critical #grows #less #more #older

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#humor #joke #oneself #sense #sense of humor

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. ↗