#oneself

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain. ↗

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#life #pain #philosophy #life

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience. ↗

— Berthe Morisot

#express #feelings #important #oneself #own

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#necessary #oneself #others #pathetic

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 Paul Fadiman

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

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#consciousness #easy #hand #hardly #infinitely

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself. ↗

— Max Frisch

#harder #nothing #oneself #than

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#antagonism #between #divided #division #exploited

To forget oneself is to be happy. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#forget #happy #oneself

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

— Graham Greene

#go #impossible #imprisoned #life #oneself