#oneself

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#ancestors #bliss #conjugal #depend #due

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

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#been #best #best way #depths #experience

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

— Clifton Paul Fadiman

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

To forget oneself is to be happy. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#forget #happy #oneself

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#oneself #problem #whole

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#communication

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#being #bore #everyone #oneself #someone

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#develop #fractured #fragile #funny #kid