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It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph. ↗

— Robert Frank

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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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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 is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others. ↗

— Mencius

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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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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance. ↗

— Tara Brach

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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

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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

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