#oneself

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. ↗

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

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To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. ↗

— Robert Conquest

#congratulate #environment #fault #moral #more

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty. ↗

— Lance Loud

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Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits. ↗

— Greil Marcus

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It's dangerous to assert oneself. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#dangerous #oneself

There are things one must do for oneself. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

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When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. ↗