#oneself

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#love-yourself #truth-in-you #uniqueness-of-individual #love

We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#cooperative #individuality #love #purpose-of-living #understanding-oneself-and-others

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses. ↗

— Joan Baez

#hardest #know #oneself

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. ↗

— John Cazale

#find #i #inability #makes #oneself

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#express #found #inside #must #nobody

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#link #me #nearly #oneself #only

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. ↗

— Henry Moore

#discipline #drawing #fundamental #much #oneself

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#certainty #come #deceive #does #essential

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. ↗

— Simone Weil

#cannot #crushed #crushing #feel #feels

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. ↗

— James Wyatt

#employ #matters #oneself #others #professional