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To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
To become a better actor, one needs to look inwards and understand oneself better. Then, you can create magic on screen.
I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.
I'm firmly convinced that true beauty only springs from the acceptance of oneself, from an awareness of who we really are.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.
How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose a part of oneself.
One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
It's a challenge to stay true to oneself and celebrate our stories. I do so by continuing to be what I am, continuing to be myself.
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.
Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
To me I think leadership is activism. It's giving back to your community, it's investing in oneself, and you know women and children.
Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.
Fashion is not superficial; it is a dynamic tool to transform oneself, and it can be used to command the attention of those around you.
I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines by memory.
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.