#oneself

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#develop #fractured #fragile #funny #kid

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#afford #all day #come #day #does

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#any #artist #believe #must #mythologies

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#even #intentioned #oneself #rebounds #upon

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#humility #love #narcissism #narcissistic #objective

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

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#demanding #does #endless #even #find

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anything #oneself #only #persuade #real

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#derive #fog #good #happiness #illuminating

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#buddhist #close #essential #essential thing #frame