#oneself

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#greater #joy #listening #nothing #oneself

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#does #keep #mean #oneself #safe

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#artistic expression #communicate #embodies #expression #fashion

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray. ↗

— Tom Skerritt

#been #best #condition #director #experienced

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

#appears #been #curious #darwinian #darwinian theory

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#fragrance #france #must #oneself

Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#curve #doing #figure #finding #game

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#along #attitude #based #church #clear

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#because #body #end #flesh #get

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#another #boring #business #different #harm