#oneself

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#being #bore #everyone #oneself #someone

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#darkness #enter #form #funeral #like

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. ↗

— Albert Camus

#assert #know #oneself #should

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#any #good #good advice #never #oneself

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#alone #being #boil #coffee #does

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#life #most #oneself #prevent #prolonged

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#gift #love #love is #oneself

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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