Oneself Quotes
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
Sam HarrisSam Harris A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.
Robert GravesRobert Graves Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
Frida KahloFrida Kahlo One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
NovalisNovalis One cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.
Haile SelassieHaile Selassie One who cannot laugh, cannot meditate. Laughter is a certain exuberance of your energy. Meditation is the ultimate exuberance of your energy without physical action.
SadhguruSadhguru Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you’re funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
Alexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose -to make people laugh.
W. C. FieldsW. C. Fields Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
D. H. LawrenceD. H. Lawrence