#oneself

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

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable. ↗

— Julian Sands

#having #made #oneself #overseas #reported

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

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#greater #joy #listening #nothing #oneself

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray. ↗

— Tom Skerritt

#been #best #condition #director #experienced

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

#appears #been #curious #darwinian #darwinian theory

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#along #attitude #based #church #clear

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