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

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

If one wants to measure oneself by the facile accruement of awards, then I've done very well.

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

Perhaps Kafka laughed when he told stories [. . . ] because one isn't always equal to oneself.

It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

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

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

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

There is so much one would rather not believe until one has seen for oneself whether it is true.

Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

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

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

It's essential to feel beautiful to oneself. Not in an egotistical way, but in a self-loving way.

One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

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

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

It seems to be that way with most things. No one to do the really disagreeable jobs except oneself.

Indeed, President Trump seems to have a pretty good idea how to enrich oneself at taxpayer expense.

Freedom is something that we got to achieve inside ourselves. Nobody can achieve it outside oneself.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Without the ambition to raise oneself to life's challenges, growth and innovation would never happen.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.

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

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

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