#oneself

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

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#hope #lie #live #oneself #signifies

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

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. ↗

— Epictetus

#begun #complete #education #misfortunes #neither

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#fellow #fellow man #man #oneself #prayer

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#even #intentioned #oneself #rebounds #upon

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#go #ground #into #just #lotus

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#earth #either #except #give #hand

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

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