#oneself

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#empires #especially #fates #i #i can

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bravery #certain #certain point #chivalry #frame

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#despairing #evil #oneself #refusal #root

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#footing #lose #momentarily #oneself

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#always #completely #fruitful #fruitless #had

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#becomes #educate #every #expressions #god

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

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

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