Oneself Quotes
Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.
Gottfried LeibnizGottfried Leibniz I have endured all the wrong people only to reach to the right one.
Shiwanshi PandeyShiwanshi Pandey One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It’s a very moody key, and also ‘A’ is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
Alicia KeysAlicia Keys Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.
Byron KatieByron Katie One’s weakness should not ever be revealed.
ChanakyaChanakya An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
Adam SmithAdam Smith There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes It’s contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that’s how it is.
Deontay WilderDeontay Wilder Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
Antonin ArtaudAntonin Artaud Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris MurdochIris Murdoch I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.
Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert One finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston